NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 38

28 MARCH 2013

Training Incentive Allowance Programme (as established and approved on 30 November 1998)⁵

Clause 6.1.1

In clause 6.1.1, replace "$103.95" and "$4,158.00" with "$104.58" and "4,183.20" respectively.

Clause 6.4.2

In clause 6.4.2, replace "$4,158.00" with "$4,183.20".

Schedule 2

Clause 4

Amendments to welfare programmes

Home Help Programme (as established and approved on 6 May 2004)⁶
Schedule

Clause 1(a)

In the Schedule, in clause 1(a), replace "$14.21" with "$14.47".

Clause 1A

In the Schedule, revoke clause 1A.

Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000 (as established and approved on 13 November 2000)⁷
Schedule
In the Schedule, replace "$235", "$187", "$145", "$299", "$250", and "$207" with "$256", "$208", "$163", "$331", "$271", and "$232" respectively.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of March 2013.

HON PAULA BENNETT, Minister for Social Development.

Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the instrument, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This instrument, which comes into effect on 1 April 2013, amends a Ministerial direction and a number of Ministerial welfare programmes under the Social Security Act 1964.

Clause 4 and Schedule 1:

• adjusts certain rates, standard costs, and limits to reflect a 0.61% increase in the New Zealand Consumers Price Index from the December 2011 quarter to the December 2012 quarter (calculated using the CPI All Groups excluding cigarettes and other tobacco products).

• revokes an obsolete special benefit standard cost (in clause 2 of the Schedule of the Ministerial Direction in relation to Special Benefit) as no youth support payment recipient is eligible for a special benefit.

Clause 4 and Schedule 2 amends the:

• Home Help Programme, to adjust the hourly rate to reflect a 1.85% increase in the adult minimum wage, and to revoke provision for an automatic increase in the rates of home help based on increases to the minimum wage — as the hourly rate is adjusted each year for increases to the minimum wage, provision for automatic increase is unnecessary duplication.

• Special Transfer Allowance Programme 2000 to adjust average regional rents to reflect movements in rentals.

ⁱNew Zealand Gazette, 16 December 1999, No. 193, page 4599

⁲New Zealand Gazette, 15 December 2005, No. 207, page 5275

³New Zealand Gazette, 17 December 1998, No. 200, page 4769

⁴New Zealand Gazette, 11 July 2002, page No. 78, page 2079

⁵New Zealand Gazette, 10 December 1998, No. 198, page 4695

⁶New Zealand Gazette, 13 May 2004, No. 52, page 1290

⁷New Zealand Gazette, 16 November 2000, No. 154, page 3995

State Services Commission

State Sector Act 1988

Appointment of Deputy State Services Commissioner

Pursuant to section 12 of the State Sector Act 1988, the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, has appointed

Sandra Joy Clare Beatie

as the Deputy State Services Commissioner from 1 April 2013 to 30 June 2016.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of March 2013.

IAIN RENNIE, State Services Commissioner.

The Treasury

Crown Entities Act 2004

Notice of Approval Given Pursuant to Section 160(3) of the Crown Entities Act 2004

Pursuant to section 160(3) of the Crown Entities Act 2004, I, Jeremy Salmond, Treasury Solicitor, hereby give notice that on 13 March 2013, The Honourable Simon William English, Minister of Finance, and The Honourable Anthony Boyd Williams Ryall, Minister of Health, gave approval under section 160(1)(b) of the Crown Entities Act 2004, in relation to section 162 of that Act, for Health Benefits Limited to borrow from Westpac New Zealand Limited.

This approval will expire on 2 April 2017.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of March 2013.

JEREMY SALMOND, Treasury Solicitor.