Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Territorial authorities - Transfer of territorial authority's functions, duties, and powers to another territorial authority or regional council

177: Effect of transfer to territorial authority or regional council

You could also call this:

"What happens when council jobs are transferred to another council"

When a territorial authority gives some of its jobs to another territorial authority or regional council, it is no longer in charge of those jobs. You will see this happen under section 176. The authority that gets the new jobs is now in charge of doing them.

If a regional council gets these new jobs, it is treated like a territorial authority for the purposes of the Food Act 2014. This means the regional council has to follow the same rules as a territorial authority when doing these jobs. It does these jobs because it got them under section 176.

When jobs are transferred to a territorial authority, that authority is now responsible for doing them. You can find out more about how this works by looking at section 176. The authority that gets the jobs has to do them, and it is in charge of making sure they get done.

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176: Transfer of functions, duties, and powers to territorial authority or regional council, or

"When councils can pass on some of their jobs to other councils or regional councils"

178: Records of transfer, or

"Keeping track of jobs given to other councils"

Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Territorial authorities: Transfer of territorial authority's functions, duties, and powers to another territorial authority or regional council

177Effect of transfer to territorial authority or regional council

If a territorial authority transfers any functions, duties, or powers under section 176, the territorial authority ceases to be responsible for the performance or exercise of those functions, duties, and powers.
If functions, duties, and powers are transferred under section 176 to a territorial authority, that territorial authority is responsible for the performance or exercise of those functions, duties, and powers.
If functions, duties, and powers are transferred under section 176 to a regional council, the regional council is to be treated as a territorial authority for the purposes of this Act.