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Land Transport Act 1998

Motor vehicle registration and licensing - Delegations and authorisations

272: Delegations

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"The Registrar can pass on some of their jobs to other people."

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The Registrar can give some of their jobs or powers to other people. You need to know that the Registrar can do this for some jobs or all of them. The Registrar can give these jobs to people who work in the government, but not to others without the Minister's permission. If the Registrar gives jobs to someone, that person can give some of those jobs to another person with the Minister's approval. You should be aware that some people may have to follow the Official Information Act 1982 and the Ombudsmen Act 1975. These people can do the jobs they are given in the same way as the Registrar. The Registrar can give jobs to people for a certain time or forever, and can take them back whenever they want. A person who is given a job can still do it even if the Registrar who gave it to them is not the Registrar anymore. When someone is doing a job they were given, they may need to show proof that they are allowed to do it. In this case, a person can be an individual or a company, but not a group of people who are not a company. The Registrar can also give directions or conditions to people they give jobs to, and these people must follow them. The Minister has to agree to some of these jobs being given to people who do not work in the government, according to the Public Service Act 2020. You can find more information about this in the Public Service Act 2020, the Official Information Act 1982, and the Ombudsmen Act 1975, which are all available on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 17Motor vehicle registration and licensing
Delegations and authorisations

272Delegations

  1. The Registrar may, either generally or particularly, delegate to specified persons any of the Registrar's functions or powers under this Part.

  2. However, subsection (1) does not permit the Registrar to delegate a function or power to a person or a class of persons not employed in the State services (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 2020), except with the written consent of the Minister.

  3. If the Registrar delegates functions or powers to a person under this section, that person—

  4. may, with the prior approval of the Minister, delegate to another person approved functions or powers; and
    1. is, in the case of a person not employed in the State services, subject to—
      1. the Official Information Act 1982; and
        1. the Ombudsmen Act 1975.

        2. A person to whom functions or powers are delegated under this section may perform those functions and exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred or imposed upon the person directly and not by delegation.

        3. The Registrar may—

        4. delegate a function or power under this section to a specified person or class of persons or to the holder or holders of a specified office or class of office for the time being; and
          1. impose general or special directions or conditions.

            1. A delegation may be given for a specific or indefinite period, but in either case is revocable at will.

            2. A delegation of a function or power does not prevent the performance of that function or the exercise of that power by the Registrar.

            3. A delegation given under this section—

            4. continues in force according to its tenor until it is revoked, even if the Registrar who gave the delegation ceases to be Registrar; and
              1. continues to have effect as if it were made by the person appointed as Registrar.

                1. A person acting or purporting to act under a delegation under this section must, when reasonably requested, produce evidence of the person's authority to do so.

                2. In this section, person includes a body corporate, but does not include an unincorporated body of persons.

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                Notes
                • Section 272: added, on , by section 32(17) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 17).
                • Section 272(2): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).