6Administrative action

6 Administrative action (1) Administrative action is any action about a matter of administration, and includes: (a) a decision or act; and (b) a failure to make a decision or do an act; and (c) the formulation of a proposal or intention; and (d) the making of a recommendation, including a recommendation made to the Administrator or a minister; and (e) a decision or act taken in consequence of the making of a recommendation. (2) Administrative action of a public authority includes: (a) administrative action taken by, in or for the authority; and (b) administrative action taken by or for an officer of the authority in relation to or incidental to the exercise or purported exercise of a power, or performance or purported performance of a function, of the authority or officer; and (c) administrative action taken for, or in relation to or incidental to the performance of functions conferred on, the authority, by an entity that is not a public authority, including for example, by an entity under a contract.

Ombudsman Act 2009 8 (3) Subsection (2)(a) applies even if the action is taken by a public authority wholly or partly for an entity that is not a public authority. (4) For subsection (2)(c), the action is taken to be administrative action of the public authority.