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Auditor General Act

Version of section 15 from 2005-12-31 to 2024-06-11:


Marginal note:Officers, etc.

  •  (1) The officers and employees that are necessary to enable the Auditor General to perform his or her duties are to be appointed in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act and, subject to subsections (2) to (5), the provisions of that Act apply to those offices and employees.

  • Marginal note:Public Service Employment Act — employer and deputy head

    (2) The Auditor General may exercise the powers and perform the functions of the employer and deputy head under the Public Service Employment Act within the meaning of those terms in subsection 2(1) of that Act.

  • Marginal note:Public Service Employment Act — Commission

    (3) The Auditor General may, in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions that the Public Service Commission directs, exercise the powers and perform the functions of that Commission under the Public Service Employment Act, other than its powers and functions in relation to the hearing of allegations by a candidate under sections 118 and 119 of that Act and its power to make regulations.

  • Marginal note:Delegation

    (4) The Auditor General may authorize any person employed in his or her office to exercise and perform, in any manner and subject to any terms and conditions that he or she directs, any of his or her powers and functions under subsections (2) and (3).

  • Marginal note:Sub-delegation

    (5) Any person authorized under subsection (4) may, subject to and in accordance with the authorization, authorize one or more persons under that person’s jurisdiction to exercise any power or perform any function to which the authorization relates.

  • R.S., 1985, c. A-17, s. 15
  • 1992, c. 54, s. 79
  • 2003, c. 22, ss. 91, 227

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