If you are a Returning Officer, someone else can do some of your tasks, as stated in section 20C. This does not stop you from doing your job or making decisions. You are still responsible for what your team does, even if someone else is helping with some tasks. If a new person becomes the Returning Officer, it does not change the tasks that were given to someone else to do.

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20CA: Powers of delegate, or

"When someone helps the Returning Officer, they have the same powers to make decisions."

20CC: Revocation of delegations, or

"When someone takes back a job they gave you"

Part 2Officers

20CBEffect of delegation on Returning Officer

No delegation under section 20C—
affects or prevents the performance of any function or duty or the exercise of any power by the Returning Officer; or
affects the responsibility of the Returning Officer for the actions of any electoral official acting under the delegation; or
is affected by any change in the person appointed as Returning Officer.

Notes

Section 20CB: inserted, on 1 October 2010, by section 9 of the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 26).