Retirement Villages Act 2003

Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters - Registrar of Retirement Villages

88: Power of Registrar to delegate

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"The Registrar can give some of their tasks to others in writing."

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The Registrar of Retirement Villages can give some of their jobs to other people. You need to know the Registrar can only do this in writing. The Registrar cannot delegate the power to delegate jobs to others. The person who gets these jobs must do them as the Registrar would. You do these jobs with the same power as the Registrar. The Registrar can give directions or conditions to the person doing the jobs. If someone is doing a job they were delegated, you assume they are doing it correctly. The Registrar can delegate jobs to a specific person or a group of people. The Registrar can also delegate jobs to someone with a specific title. The Registrar can take back a delegated job at any time in writing. This does not stop the Registrar from doing the job themselves. If the Registrar who delegated the job leaves their position, the delegated job remains until it is revoked.

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Part 5Registrar of Retirement Villages, code of practice, and miscellaneous matters
Registrar of Retirement Villages

88Power of Registrar to delegate

The Registrar may from time to time, in writing, delegate to any person all or any of the functions, duties, and powers exercisable by the Registrar under this Act, except this power of delegation.
Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions attached at any time by the Registrar, the person to whom any functions, duties, or powers are delegated under this section must perform and may exercise those functions, duties, and powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on that person directly by this section and not by delegation.
Every person purporting to act under any delegation under this section is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.
Any delegation under this section may be made to a specified person or to persons of a specified class, or may be made to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or specified classes of offices.
Every delegation under this section is revocable in writing at will, and no such delegation prevents the exercise of any function, duty, or power by the Registrar.
Every delegation under this section, until revoked, continues in force according to its tenor, even if the Registrar by whom it was made has ceased to hold office.