NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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pursuant to a general or specific approval from the Solicitor-General, provided that any Department may instruct a Crown Solicitor without further authority than these Directions in respect of a summary prosecution or the taking of depositions for an indictable prosecution. All requirements by any Department or Government agency for legal services to be provided other than by its own staff falling into Category 2 may be referred to Crown Solicitors or other lawyers in private practice without further authority than these Directions provided that the Solicitor-General may intervene at any stage in a particular case to require that the legal services concerned be provided as the Solicitor-General directs. Where any question or dispute arises as to the category into which a particular requirement for legal services falls, it shall be resolved by the Solicitor-General.

(d) Where the Department seeks legal services in accordance with these Directions from lawyers in private practice it will be the duty of the Chief Executive to ensure that those lawyers engaged are free of conflicts of interest, have an appropriate level of expertise for the work they are asked to undertake, and are adequately supervised by the Department in the work they are engaged to do.

7. Where an opinion is sought from the Crown Law Office on an issue over which there is a difference between Departments both or all of those Departments should advise the Crown Law Office of their views. An opinion will be given to all of them jointly.

8. Where an opinion relates to the responsibilities of more than one Department the Department which seeks the opinion shall be responsible for meeting the costs of it. Departments may however agree among themselves to share the cost of any opinion. The Department having responsibility in the relevant area shall meet the cost of legal services provided:

(a) at the direction of Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee; and

(b) as a result of the intervention of the Solicitor-General pursuant to these Directions.

9. A lawyer who is employed in a Department or agency may appear on summary prosecutions in the District Court. Appearances by Departmental legal staff in any other jurisdiction will require a general or specific approval from the Solicitor-General.

10. No appeal from the decision of any Court or Tribunal, or application for judicial review, is to be instituted by any Crown party without the specific approval of the Solicitor-General.

11. If an employee of a Department is charged with a criminal offence arising out of the course of his or her employment, any claim for the reimbursement of the employee's legal costs shall be decided by the Chief Executive of the Department concerned.

12. If an employee of a Department is made a defendant in a civil action arising out of the course of his or her employment, the Crown shall bear the expenses of that defence, and the Attorney-General may take over the conduct of the case. For the purposes of this Direction ‘employee’ includes a Chief Executive and a member of the Senior Executive Service.

13. Opinions provided by the Solicitor-General or the Crown Law Office are intended for the assistance of Ministers, and Departments only. They are not to be sought for private bodies or individuals.

14. An opinion given by the Crown Law Office is the property of the Crown and in the charge of the person to whom it is addressed. Subject to the rights of the Attorney-General to be fully informed on all Government legal business, the Solicitor-General and Crown Law Office will not disclose the contents of an opinion to any third party without the specific authority of the addressee. Requests to the Crown Law Office for copies of such opinions, whether under the Official Information Act or otherwise, will be transferred to the addressee who must decide whether to claim or waive any solicitor and client privilege attaching to the opinion. The Crown Law Office will, on request, give advice as to whether privilege should or may be claimed but the ultimate decision must be made by the addressee.

15. The Cabinet Rules for the Conduct of Crown Legal Business 1958 are hereby revoked.

PAUL EAST, Attorney-General.

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Education

Education Act 1989

Appointment of Commissioner to Grey Lynn School

Pursuant to section 109 (4) (a) of the Education Act 1989, I hereby appoint

Brian Wilson as Commissioner for Grey Lynn School

to act in the place of the board.

This notice shall come into force on the 10th day of May 1993.

Dated at Wellington this 6th day of May 1993.

M. DEILLOW, Acting Senior Manager, National Operations (acting pursuant to delegated authority).

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Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975

Supplementary Integration Agreement

Pursuant to section 10 of the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975, notice is given that a supplementary integration agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Education on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen acting through the Senior Manager, National Operations, Ministry of Education, pursuant to delegated authority, and the proprietor of the following school:

Wesley College, Auckland.

The said supplementary integration agreement was executed on the 26th day of April 1993. A copy of the supplementary agreement is available for inspection without charge by any member of the public at the district office of the Ministry of Education, 6–10 Nugeut Street, Auckland.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of April 1993.

MAURICE DELLOW, Acting Senior Manager, National Operations.

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Internal Affairs

Electoral Act 1956

Member of the House of Representatives Elected— Tauranga Electoral District

Pursuant to the Electoral Act 1956, I have received a return of the Writ issued on the 19th day of March 1993 for the election of a Member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Tauranga Electoral District and by the endorsement on that Writ,

Winston Raymond Peters

has been duly elected to serve as a member for the said district.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of May 1993.

R. P. CAMERON, Clerk of the Writs.

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