Families Commission Act 2003

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Other matters to which the Commission must have regard

9. Government policy and priorities (Repealed)

10. Diversity of New Zealand families

1. In the exercise and performance of its powers and functions, the Commission must have regard to the kinds, structures, and diversity of families.
2. In this section, family includes a group of people related by marriage, [civil union,] blood, or adoption, an extended family, 2 or more persons living together as a family, and a whanau or other culturally recognised family group.
3. However, persons are not members of a family for the purposes of this section solely because they have as their common objective or 1 of their common objectives the achievement of some outcome of a community, domestic, professional, recreational, social, vocational, or other nature (for example, the commission of offences against any enactment, whether to obtain valuable consideration or not).
4. Subsection (3) is for the avoidance of doubt.

11. Needs, values, and beliefs of particular groups

In the exercise and performance of its powers and functions, the Commission must have regard to the needs, values, and beliefs—

1. of Māori as tangata whenua:
2. of the Pacific Islands peoples of New Zealand:
3. of other ethnic and cultural groups in New Zealand.

12. Relevant international obligations

In the exercise and performance of its powers and functions, the Commission must have regard to New Zealand's international obligations relevant to the interests of families.