New Zealand Legislation: Acts

6 Delegation of Minister's powers

• (1) Subject to subsection (1A), the Minister may from time to time delegate in writing to the Director-General, or to any officer or employee of the Department, or to any local authority or statutory Board, or to any officer or class of officers employed in any Department of State that has control of any Crown-owned land, all or any of his powers under this Act, but not including this present power of delegation.

  (1A) The Minister must not delegate the power to grant concessions under Part 2 other than to the Director-General or to any other officer or employee of the Department.

  (2) Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions attached by the Minister, the person to whom any powers are delegated under this section may exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on him directly by this section and not by delegation.

  (3) Every person purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall, when called upon to do so, produce evidence of the delegation.

  (4) Any delegation under this section may be made to a specified person or to persons of a specified class, or may be made to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or class of offices.

  (5) Every delegation under this section shall be revocable in writing at will, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Minister.

  (6) Every delegation made under this section by the Minister or by any other person holding any office shall, until it is revoked, continue in force according to its tenor, notwithstanding the fact that the Minister or other officer by whom it was made may have ceased to hold office, and shall continue to have effect as if made by his successor in office.

  Compare: 1956 No 6 s 7

  The words “Director-General” and “Department” in subsection (1) were substituted, as from 1 April 1987, for the words “Director-General of Forests” and “Forest Service” respectively, pursuant to section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65). See also section 2(2) Forests Act 1949 (1949 No 19) as to an earlier amendment of these terms.

  Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 October 1999, by section 4(1) Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 80) by inserting, at the beginning of that subsection, the words “Subject to subsection (1A),”.

  Subsection (1A) was inserted, as from 1 October 1999, by section 4(2) Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 80).