New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 531A

531A Authorised persons

(1) The Commissioner or a Council may, in writing, appoint suitably qualified persons to be authorised persons for the purposes of this Part.

(2) An authorised person may exercise any or all of the functions of an investigator that are or would be exercisable by an investigator appointed by the Commissioner or Council, as the case may be, and accordingly references in this Act and the regulations to such an investigator extend to an authorised person.

(3) An authorised person may exercise any such functions in relation to a complaint whether or not an investigator has been appointed in relation to the complaint.

(4) An appointment under this section may be made generally (to apply for all complaints or for all complaints of a specified class) or for a specified complaint.