5Delegation of Sheriff’s functions

5 Delegation of Sheriff’s functions

5 Delegation of Sheriff’s functions

(1) The Sheriff may delegate any of the Sheriff’s functions, other than this power of delegation—

(a) to any sheriff’s officer, or

(b) to any person employed in the department in which this Act is administered, or

(c) to any person prescribed by the regulations or belonging to a class so prescribed.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the Sheriff may delegate a function conferred or imposed on, or delegated to, the Sheriff by or under an Act or law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory, only if—

(a) the Act or law conferring or imposing the function on the Sheriff allows the Sheriff to delegate the function, or

(b) in relation to a function that is delegated—the delegation conferring the function on the Sheriff allows the Sheriff to subdelegate the function.

s 5: Am 2017 No 22, Sch 4.43 [3]; 2019 No 10, Sch 1.20 [2]; 2024 No 8, Sch 1[4].