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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Regulations and miscellaneous provisions - Other miscellaneous provisions - Delegations

460: Delegation of Director’s functions or powers to employees of CAA

You could also call this:

"The Director can pass on some jobs or decision-making powers to CAA staff."

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The Director of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) can give some of their jobs or powers to CAA employees. You can think of jobs as functions and powers as the ability to make decisions. The Director can give employees jobs or powers that are in the Civil Aviation Act or other laws.

The Director must write down which jobs or powers they are giving to employees. When the Director gives jobs or powers to employees, they must follow the rules in the Act. For example, the Director cannot give the power to revoke an aviation document, which is a special paper that says someone can fly a plane, to employees without following the rules in section 98.

The Director also cannot give jobs or powers to employees if those jobs or powers were given to the Director by the Minister, unless the Minister agrees in writing. This means the Minister has to say it is okay for the Director to give those jobs or powers to employees.

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Part 10Regulations and miscellaneous provisions
Other miscellaneous provisions: Delegations

460Delegation of Director’s functions or powers to employees of CAA

  1. The Director may delegate to any employee of the CAA any of—

  2. the Director’s functions and powers under this or any other Act; or
    1. the functions or powers delegated to the Director under this Act.

      1. A delegation under this section must be in writing.

      2. Despite subsection (1), the Director must not delegate the power under section 98 to revoke an aviation document.

      3. Subsection (1) is subject to any other provision of this Act that provides that the Director must not delegate a particular function or power.

      4. The Director must not delegate any functions or powers delegated to the Director by the Minister without the written consent of the Minister.

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