Who can create an authorisation

Responsibilities of creating an authorisation

If you’re a principal authority or authorisation administrator, you can create authorisations for employees and other individuals to work on behalf of the business. It is your responsibility to maintain the integrity of your business records. This is to ensure:

• employees can easily identify who can authorise them
• the correct people have been authorised to access government online services on behalf of the business.

Principal authority

As a principal authority, you are a responsible for the business, such as a public officer or director.

You can create authorisations for others to act on behalf of the business, including authorisation administrators who can also create and manage authorisations.

To check if you are a principal authority, see Who can set up.

Authorisation administrator

To become an authorisation administrator, you need to be authorised in that role by a principal authority or another authorisation administrator first.

Once authorised, you can create and manage authorisations for others.

To find out how to receive an authorisation request see Act on behalf of a business.