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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters - Matters relating to management or administration

116: Powers and functions of residence managers

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"What the person in charge of a special home can and must do to keep people safe and happy."

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The residence manager is in charge of a special place where people live. You need to know what their job is. The manager makes sure the place runs according to some important goals set out in section 4 and some principles set out in section 5. The manager also has to make sure everyone who lives or visits the place is safe and happy.

The manager has to keep the people who live there safe and make rules for the place under section 119. They also have to protect the rights of the people who live there and make sure any rules they make are fair. If the manager is away, their deputy takes over their job.

You cannot work in two jobs at the same time if one of them is being a residence manager or working at the residence and the other job is under the Corrections Act 2004. The manager has other jobs to do as well, which are set out in the law.

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Part 2Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters
Matters relating to management or administration

116Powers and functions of residence managers

  1. The residence manager has, in relation to the residence for which the manager is appointed as manager, the following powers and functions:

  2. ensuring that the residence operates in accordance with the objective set out in section 4 and the principles set out in section 5:
    1. ensuring the welfare of residents, staff, and visitors:
      1. ensuring the safe custody of residents:
        1. making rules for the residence under section 119:
          1. protecting the rights of residents and ensuring that any limitation of those rights is lawful:
            1. any other powers and functions conferred under this Act or regulations made under this Act or any other enactment.

              1. On the occurrence from any cause of a vacancy in the office of the residence manager, and in the case of the absence from duty of the person appointed as residence manager (from whatever cause arising), and for so long as any such vacancy or absence continues, the deputy residence manager has and may exercise and perform all of the powers, duties, and functions of the residence manager.

              2. A person must not perform any functions under the Corrections Act 2004 while that person is a residence manager or an employee for the purposes of the residence.

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