Section 45Part 7 — Personnel Arrangements for Staff
Power of chief officer to delegate
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A chief officer may delegate his powers under this Part to a staff member in accordance with this section.
Unless the terms and conditions of the delegation otherwise provide, a person to whom duties or powers are delegated by a chief officer under this section shall not sub-delegate those duties or powers to another staff member.
Subject to subsection (2), a delegation under this section may be made to a specified person or persons of a specified group or to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or offices, and various powers may respectively be delegated to different persons.
A delegation under this section —
shall be in writing;
may be made on such terms and conditions as the person delegating or sub-delegating thinks fit; and
may be revoked at any time by written notice from the person delegating.
Except to the extent that the terms and conditions of the delegation otherwise provide, a delegate under this section may exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the delegate directly and not by delegation.
No delegation under this section shall affect or prevent the exercise of any of the powers of the delegant nor shall any such delegation affect the responsibility of that person for the actions of the delegate, and once a decision is made, it shall, for all purposes, be as good as having been made by the delegant.
A delegation under this section, until revoked, continues in force, notwithstanding that the delegant has ceased to hold office as such, and shall continue to have effect as if made by the successor of the delegant but without limiting the authorities conferred on the successor by or under this Law.