Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 1: the Statistics Board Section 32 Executive office
135.Section 32 requires the National Statistician to establish an executive office of the Board.
136.Subsection (1) sets out that the executive office is to assist the National Statistician in the discharge of certain functions including the production of statistics including the retail prices index (under sections 20 and 21) and statistical services (under section 22).
137.Subsection (2) requires the executive office to be headed by the National Statistician and to include the other executive members of the Board, subject to the conditions in section 33(3), that the Head of Assessment may not be part of the executive office. The National Statistician may appoint to the office any other employees of the Board as required.
138.Subsection (3) permits the National Statistician to delegate any of the functions of the Board set out in subsection (1) to another member of the executive office. In effect, this will be much of the day-to-day work of the office, including the range of activities related to statistical production. However, subsection (4) makes clear that the delegation of any function under subsection (3) does not preclude the National Statistician from himself exercising that function.