New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8 Exercise of powers of Director and other officers

• (1) The Director and every officer must exercise and perform the powers and functions conferred by this Act—

  • (a) under the direction of the Director-General; and

  • (b) in the case of the Director, and every officer appointed under the State Sector Act 1988, under the control of—

    • (i) the Director-General; and

    • (ii) every other employee of the Ministry to whom the Director or officer is subordinate.

  (1A) [Repealed]

  (2) Where, by virtue of any provision of this Act, a reasonable belief in any particular state of affairs is a prerequisite for the exercise of any power by an officer or local authority inspector, it shall be sufficient if the officer or inspector exercises that power at the direction of any other officer or inspector who is superior to him and who, at the time of giving the direction, held such a belief in that state of affairs.

  Compare: 1979 No 27 s 10

  Section 8(1): substituted, on 1 July 2002, by Schedule 1 of the Food Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 26).

  Section 8(1A): repealed, on 1 July 1993, by section 32 of the Health Reforms (Transitional Provisions) Act 1993 (1993 No 23).