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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

89: Area Director may delegate functions, duties, and powers

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"The boss can give some of their work to someone else, if they are qualified and the boss agrees."

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An Area Director can give some of their jobs to someone else, but not the job of giving jobs to others. You can only get these jobs if you are suitably qualified and the Director says it is okay. The person who gets the jobs can do them when the Area Director is away because they are sick or on leave. They can also do the jobs in the same way as the Area Director would. When the Area Director gives someone their jobs, they or the person who got the jobs must tell the Director when the Area Director will be away, who got the jobs, and when the jobs are taken away. If the Area Director gives someone their jobs, the rules in Section 121 also apply to this situation.

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Part 2Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction
Administration and public assistance: Office holders

89Area Director may delegate functions, duties, and powers

  1. An Area Director may delegate any of his or her functions, duties, and powers, except this power of delegation, to a person who—

  2. is suitably qualified to exercise or perform them; and
    1. is approved for the purpose by the Director.

      1. The delegate may exercise or perform the functions, duties, and powers—

      2. only when the Area Director is absent from duty because he or she is ill or because he or she is on approved leave; but
        1. otherwise in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the delegate directly by this Act.

          1. An Area Director who makes a delegation, or his or her delegate, must tell the Director—

          2. when the Area Director is intending to be, or is, absent from duty because he or she is ill or because he or she is on approved leave; and
            1. who the delegate is; and
              1. when the delegation is revoked.

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