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Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies - Parliamentary Service - Chief executive: appointment, functions, duties, powers, and delegations

126: Chief executive’s functions, duties, and powers

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"The Chief Executive's Job: Leading and Managing the Parliamentary Service"

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You are the chief executive of the Parliamentary Service. Your job is to lead and manage it. You must ensure employees do their jobs and follow the law. You also advise the Speaker and the Parliamentary Service Commission on how the service runs. You are responsible to the Speaker for doing your job and managing the service well. This means you must do your job efficiently, effectively, and economically. You have the power to do what is necessary to perform your duties. You can do what is reasonably necessary to perform your functions and duties under this Act or other laws. This applies to you and the Parliamentary Service. You can find more information about this in Part 4.

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Part 6Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies
Parliamentary Service: Chief executive: appointment, functions, duties, powers, and delegations

126Chief executive’s functions, duties, and powers

  1. The functions, duties, and powers of the chief executive are—

  2. to lead and manage the Parliamentary Service:
    1. to ensure that the employees of the Parliamentary Service—
      1. perform the functions and duties and exercise the powers conferred or imposed on them by law; and
        1. maintain—
          1. proper standards of integrity and conduct; and
            1. concern for the public interest:
          2. to advise the Speaker and the Parliamentary Service Commission on the operation and administration of the Parliamentary Service and the delivery of funding and services under Part 4:
            1. to perform any other function or duty and exercise any other power conferred or imposed on the chief executive by law.

              1. The chief executive is responsible to the Speaker for—

              2. the performance of the functions and duties and the exercise of the powers conferred or imposed on the chief executive and the Parliamentary Service by law:
                1. managing the Parliamentary Service efficiently, effectively, and economically.

                  1. The chief executive has all the powers that are reasonably necessary to perform the functions and duties and exercise the powers conferred or imposed under this Act or other legislation on—

                  2. the chief executive; or
                    1. the Parliamentary Service.

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