Parliament Act 2025

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

127: Delegation of chief executive’s functions, duties, or powers

You could also call this:

"The boss can give some of their work to other people."

The chief executive can give some of their jobs to other people. You can be given these jobs if you are an employee of the Parliamentary Service, the Clerk, another officer of the House, or a contractor or secondee working for a parliamentary agency. The chief executive can give you jobs that they were given under this Act or other laws. The chief executive can choose a specific person or a group of people to give these jobs to. They can also give jobs to someone who holds a specific office. The chief executive must write down who they are giving the jobs to. You can do the jobs you are given in the same way as the chief executive would. The chief executive can also add conditions to the jobs they give you. If you are doing a job that was given to you by the chief executive, people will assume you are doing it correctly unless they can prove otherwise. You can find more information about this by looking at the cl 8 of the 2000 No 17 Schedule 1.

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

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

128: Status of delegations, or

"What happens to jobs given to others by the chief executive"

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

127Delegation of chief executive’s functions, duties, or powers

The chief executive may delegate any function, duty, or power of the chief executive to a person holding any of the following positions:
an employee of the Parliamentary Service:
the Clerk:
any other officer of the House:
a person working for a parliamentary agency as a contractor or secondee.

The functions, duties, and powers that the chief executive may delegate include functions, duties, or powers delegated to the chief executive under this Act or other legislation.
The delegation—
may be made to—
1. a specified person or to a specified class of persons; or
2. the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or specified class of offices; and
must be in writing.

The chief executive must not delegate the power to delegate under this section.
A person who is delegated a function, duty, or power under this section may perform that function or duty or exercise that power in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred or imposed on the person directly by this Act or other legislation.
The chief executive may impose conditions on the performance of a function or duty or exercise of a power delegated under subsection (1).
A person acting under a delegation under this section must, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting within the terms of the delegation.

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2000 No 17 Schedule 1 cl 8