Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1994 No. 182 of 1994 - SECT 6

6.(1) Section 24 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Exercise of authority under warrants

"24.(1) The Director-General, or a senior officer of the Organization
appointed by the Director-General in writing to be an authorising officer for
the purposes of this subsection, may, by signed writing, approve officers and
employees of the Organization, and other people, as people authorised to
exercise, on behalf of the Organization, the authority conferred by relevant
warrants.



"(2) The authority conferred by a relevant warrant may be exercised on behalf
of the Organization only by the Director-General or an officer, employee or
other person approved under subsection (1).



"(3) In this section:
'relevant warrant' means a warrant issued under section 25, 26, 27, 27A or 29;
'Senior Executive Service office' has the same meaning as in the Public
Service Act 1922;
'senior officer of the Organization' means an officer of the Organization who
holds or performs the duties of an office that is:

   (a)  equivalent to a Senior Executive Service office; or

   (b)  designated as an office of Manager (Senior Officer Grade A) by the
        Director-General under section 85.".

(2) An approval of a person that was given by the Director-General under
section 24 of the Principal Act for the purposes of a warrant and was in force
immediately before the commencement of this section continues in force
according to its tenor as if it had been given by the Director-General under
section 24 of the Principal Act as amended by this section.