S.L. 595.7 Art. 8Chief Executive Officer.

(1) The Agency shall have a Chief Executive Officer to be styled as the ‘Chief Executive Officer, Identity Management and

Ancillary Services’ who shall be responsible for the performance, functions and duties of the Agency and who shall be responsible for the daily management of the Agency in accordance with the Act.

(2) The Chief Executive Officer shall be appointed by the Minister.

(3) The Chief Executive Officer shall be answerable to the Board, and this save the powers granted to the Minister, the Principal Permanent Secretary and the Permanent Secretary, by articles 28 and 29 of the Act.

(4) The Chief Executive Officer may exercise those powers, function and duties exercised by any officer under his responsibility unless such powers, functions and duties are, in terms of law, vested exclusively in the said officer.