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

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

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"The chief executive's role and responsibilities in leading the Parliamentary Service"

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The chief executive has many jobs. You will lead and manage the Parliamentary Service. You must ensure employees do their jobs and follow the law. You also advise the Speaker and the Parliamentary Service Commission on how the Parliamentary Service runs and delivers funding and services under Part 4. You are responsible to the Speaker for doing your job and managing the Parliamentary Service well. You must make sure the Parliamentary Service is run efficiently, effectively, and economically. You have the power to do what is necessary to perform your jobs and duties under this proposed law or other legislation. This includes powers for you and the Parliamentary Service.

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

127Chief 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.