New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Director-General may from time to time, by writing under his hand, either generally or particularly, delegate to any officer or employee of the Department, or any officer or class of officers employed in any department of State that has control of any Crown-owned land, or the Commissioner of Police, as he thinks fit, all or any of the powers conferred on him by or under this Act, but not including this present power of delegation:
provided that the Director-General shall not delegate any power delegated to him by the Minister without the written consent of the Minister.
(2) Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions attached by the Director-General, the officer or employee 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 officer or employee or to officers or employees 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 at will, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Director-General.
(6) Any such delegation shall, until revoked, continue in force according to its tenor, notwithstanding the fact that the Director-General by whom it was made may have ceased to hold office, and shall continue to have effect as if made by the successor in office of that Director-General; and in the event of the holder of a specified office to whom any such delegation has been made ceasing to hold office it shall continue to have effect as if made to the person for the time being holding that office.
Section 7(1): amended, on 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) of the Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65).
Section 7(1): amended, on 12 October 1982, by section 3(2) of the Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 26).
