The purposes of this Act are—
to continue the public service and modernise its operation, while recognising and enhancing the non-legislative conventions that it operates under:
to set out the shared purpose, principles, and values of the public service and the people working in it:
to establish organisational forms and ways of working, including across public service agencies, to achieve better outcomes for the public:
to extend some provisions of this Act that apply to the public service to other State services and other areas of government:
to affirm that the fundamental characteristic of the public service is acting with a spirit of service to the community.
Compare: 1988 No 20 s 1A