This page relates to the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme.
This is the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) policy on the NZTA Board’s delegations to authority to make funding decisions.
Date of issue: June 2021│Updated September 2025│NZTA may review and amend investment policies at any time, including in response to any changes in the Government Policy Statement on land transport.
To ensure decisions related to funding from the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) are made by people with the delegated authority to do so.
All decisions related to transport investments that receive funding from the NLTF must be made by people with the delegated authority to make those decisions.
The NZTA Board has approved a general instrument of delegation which delegates certain powers, functions and responsibilities to the NZTA Chief Executive. This includes the ability for the chief executive to sub-delegate some of those powers, functions and responsibilities to NZTA staff. NZTA staff should refer to the Delegations page on the intranet for the current delegations and instrument of delegation (see link on that page to Chief Executive‘s delegations) to ensure full understanding of the delegations.
NZTA as both an investor and for its own activities has authority to manage activities within a funding-approved programme. This includes the authority to transfer approved allocated funds between work categories within the programme and within the same activity class, subject to terms and conditions formally advised by us. Funds cannot move between activity classes without prior approval from us.
These programmes include:
