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Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction - Administration and public assistance - Office holders

87: Director may delegate functions, duties, and powers

You could also call this:

"The boss can give some jobs to someone else to help with their work."

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The Director can give some of their jobs, tasks, and authorities to someone else who is qualified to do them. You can think of the Director like a boss, and they are allowing someone else to help with their work. The person who gets these jobs, tasks, and authorities is called a delegate.

The delegate can do the jobs, tasks, and authorities in the same way as the Director, and their decisions are just as important. This means the delegate has the power to make decisions that are like the Director's decisions. The Director is still in charge, but the delegate is helping them.

If the Director gives some of their jobs, tasks, and authorities to someone else, then Section 121 applies to this situation. This section has rules about what happens when the Director delegates their jobs, tasks, and authorities. You can look at Section 121 to learn more about these rules.

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Administration and public assistance: Office holders

87Director may delegate functions, duties, and powers

  1. The Director may delegate any of his or her functions, duties, and powers, except this power of delegation, to a person who is suitably qualified to exercise or perform them.

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

  3. Section 121 applies to a delegation made under this section.