New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Chief Registrar of Electors

• (1) There shall be a Chief Registrar of Electors who shall be the person exercising the powers, duties, and functions for the time being of the Chief Executive of New Zealand Post Limited.

  (2) The Chief Registrar shall, under the direction of the responsible Minister, be charged with the duty of carrying Part 5 into effect and to that end the Chief Registrar may, both in that capacity and in the capacity of the Chief Executive of New Zealand Post Limited, provide such computer and other services and such facilities as the Chief Registrar thinks necessary.

  (2A) Without limiting the duty imposed by subsection (2), the Chief Registrar must take all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of information held on the electoral roll.

  (3) The Chief Registrar may from time to time appoint an officer or employee of New Zealand Post Limited to be the Deputy Chief Registrar of Electors, who, subject to the control of the Chief Registrar, shall have and may exercise all the functions, duties, and powers of the Chief Registrar.

  (4) The Chief Registrar may from time to time, either generally or particularly, by writing signed by the Chief Registrar, delegate to any officer or employee of New Zealand Post Limited all or any of the Chief Registrar’s powers, except this power of delegation.

  (5) Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions imposed from time to time by the Chief Registrar, 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 that officer or employee directly by this Act and not by delegation.

  (6) Every officer or employee purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

  (7) Any delegation under this section may be made to any specified officer or employee or to officers or employees of a specified class, or to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or class of offices.

  (8) Any delegation under this section shall be revocable at will, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Chief Registrar.

  (9) Any delegation under this section shall until revoked continue in force according to its tenor, notwithstanding that the Chief Registrar 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 the Chief Registrar.

  Compare: 1956 No 107 s 7A; 1986 No 124 s 32(1)

  Section 21(2): amended, on 1 July 1995, pursuant to section 3(1)(a) of the Department of Justice (Restructuring) Act 1995 (1995 No 39).

  Section 21(2A): inserted, on 28 February 2002, by section 7 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 1).