35Administrative Arrangements Order

35 Administrative Arrangements Order (1) The Administrator may make an Administrative Arrangements Order. (2) An Administrative Arrangements Order may do any of the following: (a) nominate a department or other authority or body as an Agency; (b) allocate to a specified minister or the minister holding a specified Ministerial office: (i) the administration of an Act or a provision of an Act; or (ii) the responsibility for an area or activity of government or a government authority or government entity; or (iii) responsibility for an Agency nominated under paragraph (a); (c) allocate to an Agency nominated under paragraph (a): (i) the administration of an Act or a provision of an Act; or (ii) the responsibility for an area or activity of government or a government authority or government entity. Note for subsection (2)(a) See the definition of Agency in sections 3(1) of the Financial Management Act 1995 and 3(1) of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 1993. Interpretation Act 1978 25 (3) For subsection (2)(b)(i): (a) different provisions of an Act may be administered by different ministers; and (b) different ministers may administer an Act in different respects; and (c) 2 or more ministers may jointly administer the same Act or the same provisions of an Act. (4) For subsection (3)(c), the joint administration of an Act or provisions of an Act does not require the ministerial function to be exercised jointly. (5) The administration of any Act not allocated to a minister or an Agency by an Administrative Arrangements Order is allocated to the minister who has, and the Agency that has, responsibility for the area or activity of government under the Administrative Arrangements Order to which the subject matter of the Act most closely relates.