Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995
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8 Delegation
8 Delegation
(1) The Registrar may delegate to an authorised person any of the Registrar’s functions under this Act and the Relationships Register Act 2010, other than this power of delegation.
(2) A delegate may sub-delegate to an authorised person any function delegated by the Registrar if the delegate is authorised in writing to do so by the Registrar.
(3) In this section—
authorised person means the following—
(a) a Public Service employee, within the meaning of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013,
(b) a person engaged under a contract to provide services to enable the Registrar to exercise the Registrar’s functions under this Act or the Relationships Register Act 2010, including a person engaged through a labour hire arrangement,
(c) a person prescribed by the regulations.
s 8: Am 2010 No 19, Sch 2.1 [4]; 2025 No 13, Sch 1[3].