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Parliament Act 2025

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

46: Status and effect of delegations

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"What happens when someone is given a job or power by the Speaker"

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You can still do something even if you have given someone else the job. If the Speaker gives someone a job or power, that person can do it as if they got it directly from the law, like the Public Finance Act 1989 or the Trespass Act 1980. The Speaker can give directions or conditions when they give someone a job. You are assumed to be doing the right thing when working on a job given by the Speaker. The Speaker is still responsible for what you do, even if they gave you the job. This means the Speaker has to answer for your actions, not you.

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

46Status and effect of delegations

  1. The Speaker may continue to perform a delegated function or duty or exercise a delegated power.

  2. 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.

  3. Subsection (2) is subject to any general or particular directions given, or any conditions imposed, by the Speaker.

  4. 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.

  5. A delegation by the Speaker does not affect the responsibility of the Speaker for the actions of any person acting under the delegation.

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