New Zealand Legislation: Acts

20C Chief Electoral Officer and Returning Officers may delegate powers

• (1) The Chief Electoral Officer and every Returning Officer may each delegate any of his or her respective powers, duties, and functions (other than this power of delegation) to an electoral official.

  (2) The maker of the delegation—

  • (a) must make the delegation in writing and sign it; and

  • (b) may make the delegation subject to any conditions or limits or both.

  (3) The maker of the delegation may revoke at any time, by written notice to the delegate, any delegation made under this section.

  (4) Every person to whom a power, duty, or function is delegated under this section may exercise or perform the power, duty, or function in the same manner and with the same effect as the maker of the delegation could himself or herself have exercised or performed it.

  (5) Every person purporting to act under a delegation under this section is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

  (6) A delegation under this section does not affect or prevent the exercise or performance of any power, duty, or function of the maker of the delegation.

  Section 20C: inserted, on 28 February 2002, by section 6(1) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 1).