Part II Administration

Appointment and duties of Commissioners, officers, etc.

8 Exercise of powers and performance of duties.

1

Any act or thing required or authorised by or under any enactment to be done by the Commissioners or any of them may be done—

a

by any one or more of the Commissioners; or

F1b

any officer or other person acting under the authority of the Commissioners

F2and any statement signed by one or more of the Commissioners certifying that a person specified in the statement was, at a time or for a purpose so specified, acting under the authority of the Commissioners shall be admissible in evidence, and in Scotland shall be sufficient evidence, of the fact so certified.

2

Any person, whether an officer or not, engaged by the orders or with the concurrence of the Commissioners (whether previously or subsequently expressed) in the performance of any act or duty relating to an assigned matter which is by law required or authorised to be performed by or with an officer, shall be deemed to be the proper officer by or with whom that act or duty is to be performed.

3

Any person deemed by virtue of subsection (2) above to be the proper officer shall have all the powers of an officer in relation to the act or duty performed or to be performed by him as mentioned in that subsection.