This section deals with delegation of functions from the Child Support Registrar
Instrument of Delegation of Trevor Boucher 1989
del·e·gate (dl-gt, -gt)
n. Abbr. del.1.A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.
2.A representative to a conference or convention.
3.A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West
Virginia legislature.
4.An elected or appointed representative of a U.S. territory in the House of Representatives
who is entitled to speak but not vote.v. tr. del·e·gat·ed, del·e·gat·ing, del·e·gates (-gt.)
1.To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.
2.To commit or entrust to another: delegate a task to a subordinate.
3.Law. To appoint (one's debtor) as a debtor to one's creditor in place of oneself.
[Middle English delegat, from Medieval Latin dlgtus, from past participle of dlgre, to
dispatch: d-, de- + lgre, to send; see leg- in Indo-European Roots.]dele·gator n.
delegation \Del`e*ga"tion\, n. [L. delegatio: cf. F. d['e]l['e]gation.] 1. The act of delegating, or
investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a
convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts;
a deputation.3. (Rom. Law) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a
third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
--Pothier.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
delegation n 1: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegacy,
mission] 2: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, relegating, relegation,
deputation]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University