What the official record says
This Act is the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act . This Act comes into force on . This Act establishes Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities and provides for a government policy statement on housing and urban development. In order to recognise and respect the Crown's responsibility to consider and provide for Māori interests, this Act provides,— in (1)(b) , that the board must ensure that Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities maintains systems and processes to ensure that, for the purposes of carrying out its urban development functions, Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities has the capability and capacity to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) and its principles, to understand and apply Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993, and to engage with Māori and to understand Māori perspectives: in