Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Administration - Co-ordinators, care managers, and district inspectors

142: Co-ordinator or care manager may delegate powers

You could also call this:

"A care manager can pass on some of their jobs to someone else, but they still keep control."

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If you are a co-ordinator or care manager, you can give some of your powers to someone else who is qualified to use them. You cannot give away the power to delegate, though. You have to write down and sign the delegation.

When you give someone your powers, you can still use them yourself if you want to. The person you give your powers to can use them in the same way as you can.

If someone says they are using powers that were delegated to them, people will assume they are using those powers correctly unless someone can prove otherwise.

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141: Designation of care manager, or

"Choosing a care manager to help you with your care"

143: Status of delegations, or

"Who keeps doing a special job when the boss changes"

Part 11Administration
Co-ordinators, care managers, and district inspectors

142Co-ordinator or care manager may delegate powers

Every co-ordinator and every care manager may each delegate any of his or her respective powers, duties, and functions, except this power of delegation, to a person who is suitably qualified to exercise them.
The maker of the delegation must make the delegation in writing and sign it.
The maker of the delegation is not prevented from exercising, or affected in his or her exercise of, any of the delegated powers, duties, or functions.
The delegate may exercise the powers, duties, and functions in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the delegate directly by this Act.
Every person purporting to act under a delegation is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.