New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 11

11 Delegation

(1) The Corporation may, by instrument in writing, delegate to:

(a) a member of the Corporation,

(b) a committee of members of the Corporation,

(c) an officer or temporary employee of the Corporation,

(d) a person for the time being holding or acting in a specified position in the staff establishment of the Corporation, or

(e) any person of whose services the Corporation makes use under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 in the Government Service,

the exercise of such of its functions (other than this power of delegation) as are specified in the instrument.

(2) A function the exercise of which has been delegated under this section may, while the delegation remains unrevoked, be exercised from time to time by the delegate in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

(3) A delegation under this section may be made subject to such conditions or limitations as to the exercise of any function the subject thereof, or as to time or circumstances, as may be specified in the instrument of delegation.

(4) Notwithstanding any delegation under this section, the Corporation may continue to exercise any function delegated.

(5) Any act or thing done or suffered by a delegate acting in the exercise of a delegation under this section has the same force and effect as it would have if it had been done or suffered by the Corporation and shall be deemed to have been done or suffered by the Corporation.

(6) The Corporation may, by instrument in writing, revoke wholly or in part any delegation under this section.

(7) An instrument purporting to have been signed by a person in his or her capacity as a delegate of the Corporation shall, in all courts and before all persons acting judicially, be received in evidence as if it were an instrument duly executed by the Corporation and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument signed by a delegate of the Corporation.

(8) In subsection (7), a reference to a delegate includes a reference to the chairperson of a committee to which the exercise of a function has been delegated under subsection (1).