Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976 - SECT 27Q

             (1)  The Board may, by signed instrument, delegate to:

                     (a)  a Trustee; or

                    (aa)  a member of the staff of the Board; or

                     (b)  the Commissioner; or

                     (c)  a member of the staff referred to in section 26; or

                     (d)  an APS employee in the Department; or

                     (e)  an officer or employee of a person who is responsible for investing money forming part of a superannuation fund vested in or managed by the Board; or

                      (f)  any other person who performs duties in connection with the operation of this Act; or

                     (g)  a committee consisting of 2 or more persons each of whom is a person referred to in any of the above paragraphs;

all or any of its powers under this Act or the regulations except its power to reconsider its own decisions or decisions made by its delegates.

             (2)  The Board may delegate to a Reconsideration Advisory Committee established under section 153AB the Board's power to reconsider its own decisions, or decisions made by its delegates, under this Act or the regulations.

             (3)  If the Board delegates a power under subsection (1), the delegate may, by writing, sub‑delegate the power:

                     (a)  if the delegate is a Trustee--to:

                              (i)  another Trustee; or

                             (ii)  a person referred to in paragraph (1)(aa), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f); or

                     (b)  if the delegate is the Commissioner--to a person referred to in paragraph (1)(c), (d), (e) or (f); or

                     (c)  if the delegate is a person referred to in paragraph (1)(aa), (c), (d), (e) or (f)--to:

                              (i)  another person referred to in the same paragraph; or

                             (ii)  a person referred to in another of those paragraphs.

             (4)  Section 34AA and paragraphs 34AB(a), (b) and (d) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 apply in relation to a sub‑delegation in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply to a delegation.

             (5)  Section 34A and paragraphs 34AB(c) and (d) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 apply to a sub‑delegation as if it were a delegation.