Social Security Act 2018 (Version 59)/Section 7

7. Minister may give MSD binding directions

1. The Minister may give MSD general or special written directions about MSD’s performing or exercising any duties, functions, or powers of MSD under enactments in, or made under, either or both of this Act and the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001.
2. Directions given under this section cannot do what is done by the following kinds of directions:
   1. preferred suppliers: transitional or savings provisions directions given under section 372:
   2. debt recovery directions given under regulations made under section 444 (see section 444(1), (2)(c), and (3)).
3. MSD must, in performing or exercising a duty, function, or power, comply with all relevant current directions given under this section.
4. A direction given under this section—
   1. must, as soon as practicable after it is given, be—
      1. published on an Internet site administered by or on behalf of MSD; and
      2. notified in the Gazette; and
   2. must, each time it is amended without also being replaced, as soon as practicable after it is amended, be published—
      1. on an Internet site administered by or on behalf of MSD; and
      2. as at a stated date; and
      3. incorporating amendments up to that date; an
   3. is not a legislative instrument, but is a disallowable instrument, for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2012, and must be presented to the House of Representatives not only—
      1. as soon as practicable; but also
      2. under section 41 of that Act.
5. A notification in the Gazette for the purpose of subsection (4)(a)(ii) does not have to include the text of the direction.

1. Compare: 1964 No 136 s 5