24 APRIL 2008

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 76

3. In accordance with section 94C of the Act, the poari may
   not have more trustees co-opted or appointed by a body
   corporate than parent representatives.

4. The appointment of parent representatives and the staff
   representative on the poari shall be managed by a person
   appointed by the poari. This person, known as the kai-kōkiri
   kaupapa (“KK”), shall not be considered for selection as a
   representative of the parent community or the staff on the
   poari and shall not be the principal.

5. The KK shall appoint parent representatives on the
   recommendation of a hui of parents of students enrolled at
   Te Kura Mana Māori o Maraenui and the school community
   (“parent/community hui”). The school community shall be
   defined as te hunga tāwharau o te kaupapa o te kura1. Parents
   are those persons defined in section 92(1) of the Act.

6. The KK shall appoint a staff representative on the
   recommendation of a hui of board staff of Te Kura Mana
   Māori o Maraenui (“staff hui”). Board staff are those current
   staff that are permanently employed or have worked for the
   poari for two months or more.

7. The KK shall fix dates for two hui to be held in
   May 2008 (parent/community hui and the staff hui). The
   appointment of the first trustees under this notice shall
   take place following these hui.

8. Two hui (parent/community hui and the staff hui) must
   be held every election year (as defined in section 92 of the
   Act) after 2008. The hui dates shall be set by the KK and
   shall be between 1 February and the third Tuesday in May.

9. The parent/community hui shall recommend up
   to 12 people to be appointed to the poari. The staff hui
   shall recommend one person to be appointed to the poari.

10. Board staff may not be appointed as parent representatives
    and may not participate in both the staff hui and
    parent/community hui. Board staff who have opted to
    participate in the parent/community hui are not eligible
    to be appointed as the staff representative.

11. If a board staff member is also eligible to participate in
    the parent/community hui, they may opt to participate in that
    hui instead of the staff hui. Board staff must make this
    decision known, in writing, to the KK at least seven days
    before the earliest hui in an election year. If no preferred
    option is made, board staff shall participate only in the staff
    hui. Board staff may only participate in one type of hui
    between the main hui in election years unless their eligibility
    status changes.

12. Following a hui, the KK shall appoint trustees in
    accordance with the recommendation of the hui.

13. The term of office for the parent and staff representatives
    shall commence on the day after that on which they are
    appointed and shall end at the close of the day before the
    day on which new representatives are appointed in an
    election year after 2008.

14. All current elected, co-opted and selected trustees on the
    board of trustees of Te Kura Mana Māori o Maraenui shall
    leave office at the end of the day before the day on which
    the new trustees take office in 2008.

15. If a casual vacancy for a staff representative occurs,
    the poari shall appoint a KK as soon as practicable to run
    a staff hui. The KK shall then appoint a replacement staff
    representative on the recommendation of the hui for the
    remainder of the departing trustee’s term of office.

16. If a casual vacancy for a parent representative arises,
    then the poari must:

(a) subject to paragraphs 17 and 18, resolve not to fill
the vacancy and the vacancy shall cease to exist; or

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(b) appoint a KK who shall call a parent/community
hui in accordance with paragraph 5 and appoint
a replacement parent representative on the
recommendation of the hui for the remainder of
the departing trustee’s term of office.

17. If the effect of not filling a casual vacancy for
    a parent representative would be to leave the poari
    with fewer parent representatives than trustees co-opted by
    the poari or appointed by a body corporate, then the
    poari must appoint a KK to call a hui in accordance
    with paragraph 5. The KK shall then appoint a replacement
    parent representative on the recommendation of the hui
    for the remainder of the departing trustee’s term of office.

18. The poari may choose to leave any casual vacancy
    open, by not appointing a KK, if the vacancy occurred
    after 1 October in the year before an election year.

19. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the poari may co-opt
    trustees.

20. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the poari may grant
    a body corporate the right to appoint trustees. The poari
    may revoke any right of appointment granted without
    notice and the right to appoint shall cease immediately.

21. The term of office for trustees co-opted or appointed
    by an approved body corporate shall be for a term not
    exceeding three years. The resolution co-opting a trustee
    or granting the right to appoint may specify a shorter term
    of office.

22. The KK is responsible for:

(a) notifying the parent and school community and the
staff of the details of any relevant hui; and

(b) establishing the lists of the parents and the staff and
ensuring all the parents and staff participating in
the hui are eligible to do so and are not in breach
of paragraph 11; and

(c) keeping a list of those who attend any hui; and

(d) obtaining written confirmation from those
recommended by the hui that they wish to be
a trustee and are not ineligible to be trustees
under sections 103 and 103A of the Act; and

(e) taking responsibility for the way in which persons to
be recommended by the hui are identified; and

(f) notifying the poari, the Secretary for Education (or
authorised representative) and the public of those
who have been appointed as parent and staff
representatives on the poari.

23. The poari may claim reimbursement for the same
    expenses as would be paid to a board of trustees for
    the conduct of an election including fees for the KK (in the
    role akin to returning officer) in accordance with guidelines
    that are current at the time.

24. A trustee’s office on the poari becomes vacant in the
    circumstances set out in section 104 of the Act.

25. Changes to the constitution of the board shall be subject
    to the approval of the Minister of Education and must be
    notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

This notice shall take effect on the day after its notification
in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of April 2008.

HON CHRIS CARTER, Minister of Education.

1 Te hunga tāwharau conveys the meaning of the group of persons sheltered
by, in this case, the character or philosophy of this kura (or who support the
kura by sharing its kaupapa – Te Whānau-ā-Apanuitanga). This group can
include koroua, kuia, whānau of students. “He kanohi i kitea” (a person who
actively supports the philosophy of the kura).