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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

43: Speaker may delegate functions, duties, and powers to Deputy Speaker

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"The Speaker can share some jobs with the Deputy Speaker."

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The Speaker can give some of their jobs to the Deputy Speaker. This includes jobs from the Parliament Act 2025 or the Public Finance Act 1989. The Speaker cannot give the Deputy Speaker certain important jobs.

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Speaker and Deputy Speaker: Delegation of Speaker’s functions, duties, and powers

43Speaker may delegate functions, duties, and powers to Deputy Speaker

  1. The Speaker may delegate to the Deputy Speaker any function, duty, or power of the Speaker provided for in this Act or in the Public Finance Act 1989, other than the functions and duties specified in subsection (2).

  2. The Speaker must not delegate the following functions, duties, or powers to the Deputy Speaker:

  3. issuing determinations under section 85(1), 86, or 87(1):
    1. making a recommendation to the Governor-General under section 101 about appointing the Clerk or under section 125 about appointing the chief executive:
      1. appointing a person under section 109 to act as Clerk:
        1. appointing a person under section 130 to perform all or any of the functions and duties and exercise the powers of the chief executive:
          1. suspending or removing the chief executive from office under clause 12 of Schedule 4.

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