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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Registration of motor vehicle traders - Miscellaneous provisions - Registrar of Motor Vehicle Traders

62: Power of Registrar to delegate

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"The Registrar can give some of their jobs to others, but still keeps control."

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The Registrar of Motor Vehicle Traders can give some of their jobs to other people. You need to know the Registrar can choose who gets these jobs and what they can do. The Registrar cannot give away their power to delegate jobs to others. The Registrar must write down who they give jobs to and what those jobs are. You can be given jobs with conditions, and the Registrar can take those jobs back at any time. The Registrar can still do their own jobs, even if they give some to others. If someone is given a job, they can do it as if the law gave it to them directly. If someone seems to be doing a job they were given, you assume they are doing it correctly unless you know otherwise.

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Part 3Registration of motor vehicle traders
Miscellaneous provisions: Registrar of Motor Vehicle Traders

62Power of Registrar to delegate

  1. The Registrar may delegate to any person, either generally or particularly, any of the Registrar's functions, duties, and powers except the power of delegation.

  2. A delegation—

  3. must be in writing; and
    1. may be made subject to any restrictions and conditions the Registrar thinks fit; and
      1. is revocable at any time, in writing; and
        1. does not prevent the performance or exercise of a function, duty, or power by the Registrar.

          1. A person to whom any functions, duties, or powers are delegated may perform and exercise them in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred directly by this Act and not by delegation.

          2. A person who appears to act under a delegation is presumed to be acting in accordance with its terms in the absence of evidence to the contrary.