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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

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

117: Manager of residence may delegate powers and functions

You could also call this:

"The person in charge of a residence can pass on some of their tasks to someone else."

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The manager of a residence can give some of their jobs to someone else, but they cannot give away the job of giving jobs to others or the job of making rules under section 119. You need to know that the manager must write down and sign the jobs they are giving away. The manager can also say how the jobs should be done or put limits on what the other person can do.

The manager can still do the jobs they gave away if they want to. The person who got the jobs can do them in the same way as the manager. If someone says they are doing a job because the manager gave it to them, you can assume they are telling the truth unless someone proves they are not.

The manager is still in charge even if they give some jobs to someone else.

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

117Manager of residence may delegate powers and functions

  1. The residence manager may delegate any of his or her powers or functions, except this power of delegation and the power to make rules under section 119, to a person who is suitably qualified to exercise them.

  2. The manager must make the delegation in writing and sign it.

  3. The delegation may be subject to any conditions or limits, or both.

  4. The manager is not prevented from exercising, or affected in his or her exercise of, any of the delegated powers or functions.

  5. The delegate may exercise the powers or functions in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the delegate directly by this Act.

  6. 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.