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Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Act 1969

3A: Deputy of chief executive of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

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"The chief executive of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry can have a deputy to help make decisions."

Illustration for Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Act 1969

You can have a deputy for the chief executive of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The chief executive can choose an employee to be their deputy for the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre Act. They can do this in writing and can also cancel the appointment in writing. You can act on behalf of the chief executive if you are their deputy. This means you can make decisions and take actions as if you were the chief executive. If someone is acting as the deputy, you can be sure they have been appointed by the chief executive. This is because they are using the chief executive's powers, and no one can question this in court. The chief executive can still make decisions and take actions even if they have a deputy. This section of the Act does not stop the chief executive from doing their job.

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3ADeputy of chief executive of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

  1. The chief executive of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry may from time to time in writing—

  2. appoint an employee of the chief executive to act as the chief executive's deputy for the purposes of this Act; or
    1. cancel the appointment.

      1. The deputy is entitled to act under this Act on behalf of the chief executive.

      2. The deputy is not entitled to appoint any other deputy.

      3. The fact that an employee of the chief executive exercises or performs any of the chief executive's powers or functions under this Act is conclusive evidence of the employee's appointment under subsection (1) as the chief executive's deputy; and no act done by the employee as the chief executive's deputy, and no act done by the trust board while the employee is acting as the chief executive's deputy, may in any proceedings be questioned on the ground that the occasion for the employee's so acting had not arisen or had ceased.

      4. This section does not prevent the chief executive from exercising any power or performing any function conferred on the chief executive by this Act.

      Notes
      • Section 3A: inserted, on , by section 3(1) of the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 83).