New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SHERIFF ACT 2005 - SECT 5

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 of Justice, 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.