New Zealand Fire Service Commission

The New Zealand Fire Service Commission (Māori: Whakaratonga Iwi) was the New Zealand Crown entity responsible for overseeing firefighting across the country from 1975 to 1 July 2017. The Commission administered the New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS), the nation's urban fire and rescue service, and also acted as the National Rural Fire Authority (NRFA), which oversaw the control of wildfires by coordinating local Rural Fire Authorities. On 30 July 2017, the Commission was dissolved and was replaced with the Board of Fire and Emergency New Zealand - an agency which subsumed both the NZFS and the Rural Fire Authorities and became responsible for both urban and rural firefighting.