NLTP - National Land Transport Programme

National Summary | June 2007

Role of Land Transport NZ

Land Transport NZ is a Crown agency established to allocate land transport funding and operate in a way that contributes to an integrated, safe, responsive, and sustainable land transport system. In doing so, it must exhibit a sense of social and environmental responsibility. Its functions are to:

• promote land transport sustainability
• prepare and adopt a Land Transport Programme
• review and revise the National Land Transport Programme in accordance with its most recent performance agreement
• approve activities and activity classes
• make payments from the National Land Transport Account (NLTA)
• promote safe transport on land
• provide safety information and advice, and to foster appropriate information education programmes that promote its objective
• investigate and review accidents and incidents involving transport on land in its capacity as the responsible safety authority
• approve procurement procedures
• maintain and preserve records and documents concerning activities within the land transport system, and in particular to maintain the Land Transport Register under the Land Transport Act 1998
• audit the performance of approved organisations in relation to activities approved by the Authority and the operation of the organisation’s land transport disbursement account
• assist and advise approved organisations
• fund research, education, and training activities
• provide the Minister with any requested advice
• cooperate with, or provide advice and assistance to, any government agency or local government agency when requested to do so by the Minister, but only if the Minister and the Authority are satisfied that the performance of the Authority’s functions and duties will not be compromised

Land Transport NZ’s statutorily independent functions are to

• determine whether particular activities should be included in a National Land Transport Programme
• approve activities for funding
• approve procurement procedures

Land Transport NZ manages the National Land Transport Account. This account funds approved activities within the National Land Transport Programme.

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