8Secretary may enter agreements to exercise customer service functions

8 Secretary may enter agreements to exercise customer service functions

8 Secretary may enter agreements to exercise customer service functions

(1) The Secretary and a Government agency, or a person authorised on behalf of a Government agency, may enter into an agreement—

(a) for the Secretary to exercise a non-statutory customer service function of the agency, or

(b) with respect to the exercise of a customer service function delegated to the Secretary.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Secretary may enter into an agreement under that subsection with the Commissioner of Fines Administration with respect to the exercise of a penalty notice function. This subsection has effect whether or not any arrangement entered into under section 114 (2) of the Fines Act 1996 permits such an agreement to be made.

(3) The Secretary may exercise a customer service function or other function conferred under an agreement under this section in accordance with that agreement.

(4) An agreement must not be entered into under this section by, or on behalf of, a council, a county council or a joint organisation within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 unless the council, county council or joint organisation, by a resolution of the council, county council or joint organisation, approved the agreement before it was entered into.

(5) In this section—

penalty notice function means—

(a) a function exercisable under an arrangement entered into by the Commissioner of Fines Administration under section 114 (2) of the Fines Act 1996, or

(b) any function conferred on the Commissioner of Fines Administration under section 114 of the Fines Act 1996.

s 8: Am 2013 No 82, Sch 2.17 [1] [2]; 2017 No 65, Sch 2.30 [4] [5]; 2026 No 2, Sch 1.4[2].