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Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and parliamentary precincts - Speaker and Deputy Speaker - Delegation of Speaker’s functions, duties, and powers

45: Status and effect of delegations

You could also call this:

"What happens when someone else is given a task to do"

You can still do something even if you delegate it to someone else. When the Speaker delegates a task to you, you can do it as if the law gave you the task directly. This means you have the same power as if the law said you could do it. You must follow any directions the Speaker gives you when doing a delegated task. If someone is doing a task they were delegated, you should assume they are doing it correctly. The Speaker is still responsible for what happens when someone does a task they were delegated. The Speaker's delegation does not change their responsibility for what you do. You act on behalf of the Speaker when you do a delegated task. The law still applies to you when you are doing a delegated task.

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44: How Speaker may delegate functions, duties, and powers, or

46: Speaker may request Public Service Commissioner to perform certain functions under Public Service Act 2020, or

"The Speaker can ask the Public Service Commissioner to help a parliamentary agency with certain tasks."

Part 3Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and parliamentary precincts
Speaker and Deputy Speaker: Delegation of Speaker’s functions, duties, and powers

45Status and effect of delegations

The Speaker may continue to perform a delegated function or duty or exercise a delegated power.
A person who is delegated a function, duty, or power by the Speaker under this Act may perform that function or duty or exercise that power in the same manner and with the same effect as if it had been conferred or imposed on the person directly by this Act, the Public Finance Act 1989, or the Trespass Act 1980, as applicable.
Subsection (2) is subject to any general or particular directions given, or any conditions imposed, by the Speaker.
A person acting under a delegation must, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting within the terms of the delegation.
A delegation by the Speaker does not affect the responsibility of the Speaker for the actions of any person acting under the delegation.