Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 1: the Statistics Board Section 36 Delegation
147.This section sets out that the Board may delegate certain of its functions and describes the conditions under which it may delegate. The Board may delegate to a member or employee of the Board, or to a committee of the Board who may, undersubsection (3) further delegate down to sub-committees.
148.Under subsection (2) the Board may not delegate its duty of adopting or revising the Code, nor decisions on whether statistics have complied with the Code and can therefore be designated as National Statistics.
149.Subsection (4) provides for the fact that the delegation of a function under subsections (1) and (3) does not preclude the Board or a committee from exercising that function itself.