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                            [name] => Committee on Official Information records
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                            [name] => Committee to inquire into the Wheao canal failure
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                            [name] => Commission of inquiry into contractual arrangements entered into by the Broadcasting
Corporation of New Zealand with its employees and into certain matters related to advertising
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                                    [normalizedValue] => 1983-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                            [name] => Lyttelton-Woolston LPG [liquid petroleum gas] pipeline enquiry
                            [type] => controlling
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                            [relationHasTarget] => 19662
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                        (
                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into taxing of travelling allowances
                            [type] => controlling
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                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                            [relationHasTarget] => 19661
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                        (
                            [name] => Commission of inquiry into the heavy engineering industry
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                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
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                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                )

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                            [relationHasTarget] => 19659
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                            [name] => Commission to inquire into the need to declare a new acclimatisation district in the Auckland region
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                )

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                            [relationHasTarget] => 19656
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                                (
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                            [relationHasTarget] => 19628
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19627
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                            [name] => Commission of inquiry into New Zealand Electricity Department house rents
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                                )

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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19626
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                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into rescue and fire services at international airports
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1979-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                )

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                                    [normalizedValue] => 1980-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19625
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                            [name] => Royal Commission on the waterfront industry
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19613
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                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into the freight forwarding industry
                            [type] => controlling
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1980-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19612
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                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into Abbotsford Landslip Disaster
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1979-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
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                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into allegations of impropriety in respect of approval by the Marginal Lands Board of an application by James Maurice Fitzgerald and Audrey Fitzgerald
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1980-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1970-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                        (
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
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                        (
                            [name] => Committee of Inquiry into electoral reform
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1978-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
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                                            [0] => approximate
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
                                        (
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                                        )

                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19601
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                            [name] => Royal Commission on nuclear power generation
                            [type] => controlling
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1976-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                    [normalizedValue] => 1978-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
                                            [1] => yearOnly
                                        )

                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19598
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                        (
                            [name] => Royal Commission on the courts
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1976-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19597
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                        (
                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into wage relativities on New Zealand vessels
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1979-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
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                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
                                (
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                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => approximate
                                            [1] => yearOnly
                                        )

                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19567
                        )

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                            [name] => Commission of Inquiry into Chiropractic
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                                (
                                    [normalizedValue] => 1978-01-01T00:00:00.0Z
                                    [dateQualifier] => Array
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                                )

                            [hasEndDate] => Array
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                                            [0] => exact
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                                )

                            [itemType] => Series
                            [relationHasTarget] => 19566
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                            [name] => Committee of Inquiry on the organisation of wildlife management and research
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This is an artificial agency created by Archives New Zealand to gather together records of Commissions of Inquiry and Royal Commissions from 1967 on. Some records of Committees of Inquiry, appointed by Ministers, are also included under this agency. 
Commissions of Inquiry and Royal Commissions
Records of pre-1967 commissions and royal commissions are located amongst the records series of the relevant department (see below) or, in the case of the earliest commissions, or commissions of a general nature, within the record series of the Internal Affairs Department record group. Until the early 1900s, the Internal Affairs Department solely administered commissions. This function was gradually taken over by the department directly associated with a specific commission, until the Internal Affairs Department's role was reduced to administering commissions that fell only within their own areas of responsibility.
Commissions were set up under several means:
1. Commissions under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 were appointed in the Executive Council.
2. Commissions under Letters Patent were appointed in Council or on the advice of a Minister. 
3. Commissions  under particular Acts were appointed as each Act required.
The provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act applied whenever the commission was appointed by Governor-General or by the Governor-General in Council. However, it is doubtful whether commissions appointed under the Letters Patent, but not appointed in Council, had the privileges of the Act as they were almost always done in Council. 
Whether an inquiry was established as a commission or a royal commission was decided by the government, with perhaps the advice of the Attorney-General and the Crown Law Office. In general terms, anything deemed to be very important was given royal commission status.  
Committees of Inquiry
A committee of inquiry was set up administratively on the authority of Cabinet, not by warrant, and had no statutory basis, lacked coercive powers and was not invested with the powers of a commission that had been established under the Act.  A committee of inquiry's proceedings were not therefore protected by judicial privilege.
Courts of inquiry
A court of inquiry came into operation when necessary, if provided for in an Act. Such was the case of the Court of Inquiry under section 20 of the Construction Act 1959, which 'investigated the Gear Meat Company fire at Petone'. The records of this court of inquiry belong, and are therefore located, within the archives of the Labour Department. 
Commission of Inquiry and Royal Commission records listed under other agency documentation
The following Archives New Zealand record group agencies include records of commissions and royal commissions:
Army Department [AD]; Agriculture Department [AG]; Crown Law Office [CL]; Education Department [ED]; Electricity Department [ED]; Health Department [H]; Health Department, Mental Health Division [H-MHD]; Internal Affairs Department [IA]; Justice Department [J]; Justice Courts, Wellington [JC-W]; Labour Department [L]; Lands and Survey Department [LS]; Marine Department [M]; Maori Affairs Department [MA]; Mines Department [MD]; Police Department [P]; Social Security Department [SS]; State Services Commission [SSC]; Treasury [T]; Transport Department [TD]; Public Works Department [W].
 Please refer to the relevant record group's series documentation to locate such records.  
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