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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - National role-holders - Delegation by Director-General

21: Delegation of powers of Director-General

You could also call this:

"The Director-General can give some of their jobs to other employees."

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

The Director-General can give some of their jobs to other public service employees. This means they can ask others to do some of the things they are allowed to do under this proposed law. The Director-General can choose a specific employee or a group of employees to give these jobs to. They can also give these jobs to someone who has a particular role, like a manager. If the Director-General gives some of their jobs to someone else, they must follow the rules set out in section 22. The Director-General can still give jobs to a National Controller under section 19(2) or to a National Recovery Manager under section 20(2). But if they have already given some jobs to a National Controller or National Recovery Manager, they cannot use this section to give them more jobs that are already listed in sections 14(i) and 15(2). You need to know that the Director-General has some limits on what jobs they can give to others. They cannot give away their power to delegate jobs, which means they cannot ask someone else to decide who gets to do what jobs.

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20: Role of National Recovery Manager, or

"Who is in charge of helping New Zealand recover from emergencies?"

22: Provisions relating to delegation of Director-General’s functions, or

"Rules for when the Director-General gives someone a job to do"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
National role-holders: Delegation by Director-General

21Delegation of powers of Director-General

The Director-General may, in writing, either generally or particularly, delegate to any public service employee (within the meaning of section 65 of the Public Service Act 2020) all or any of the functions, duties, and powers that the Director-General may perform or exercise under this Act, except this power of delegation.
A delegation under this section may be made to a specified employee or to employees of a specified class, or may be made to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or class of offices.
Section 22 applies to an exercise of the power of delegation under this section.
This section—
does not limit the Director-General’s power to delegate to a National Controller under section 19(2) or to a National Recovery Manager under section 20(2); and
if a delegation has been made under section 19(2) or 20(2), must not be used to delegate any or all of the functions and powers of the Director-General referred to in sections 14(i) and 15(2).

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2002 No 33 s 105(1), (2), (4), (7)