Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Registration

86H: Delegation of prison manager’s functions under sections 86A, 86B, 86C, 86D, and 86E

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"A prison manager can pass on some jobs to prison officers."

A prison manager can give some of their jobs to one or more prison officers. They can give them jobs under sections 86A, 86B, 86C, 86D, and 86E. The prison officer can then do these jobs as if they were given to them directly. The prison manager can give directions or conditions to the prison officer. The prison officer must follow these when doing the jobs given to them. They can do the jobs in the same way as the prison manager. The prison manager must write down the jobs they give to the prison officer. They can take back these jobs at any time. In this case, a prison officer is someone who is defined in section 3(1) of the Corrections Act 2004. You can find this definition in the Corrections Act 2004.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Registration

86HDelegation of prison manager’s functions under sections 86A, 86B, 86C, 86D, and 86E

A prison manager may delegate to 1 or more prison officers any or all of the prison manager’s functions under sections 86A, 86B, 86C, 86D, and 86E.
Subject to any directions or conditions imposed by the prison manager, a prison officer to whom the prison manager’s functions are delegated under this section may carry out those functions in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the prison officer directly by sections 86A, 86B, 86C, 86D, and 86E.
A delegation must be in writing and may be revoked at any time.
In this section, prison officer means an officer within the meaning of paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of that term in section 3(1) of the Corrections Act 2004.

Notes

Section 86H: inserted, on 20 December 2025, by section 13 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 82).