New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE SPORTS CENTRE TRUST ACT 1984 - SECT 11

11 Delegation

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

(a) one or more of the trustees,

(b) a committee established under section 8,

(c) the Director,

(d) an employee of the Trust other than the Director, or

(e) any person of whose services the Trust makes use pursuant to this or any other Act,

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

(2) A function, the exercise of which has been delegated under subsection (1) may, while the delegation remains unrevoked, be exercised from time to time by the delegate in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

(3) Without limiting the operation of subsection (2), a function the exercise of which has been delegated under this section to the Director may, while the delegation remains unrevoked, be exercised from time to time in accordance with the terms of the delegation by:

(a) any other employee of the Trust, or

(b) any person of whose services the Trust makes use pursuant to this or any other Act,

as authorised by instrument in writing by the Director in that behalf either generally or in a particular case or class of cases.

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

(5) Notwithstanding the delegation of any function under this section, the Trust may continue to exercise the function.

(6) Any act or thing done or suffered by a delegate acting pursuant to a delegation under this section, or by a person duly authorised in that behalf by the Director under this section, has the same force and effect as it would have if it had been done or suffered by the Trust and shall be deemed to have been done or suffered by the Trust.

(7) The Trust may, by instrument in writing, revoke wholly or in part any delegation under this section and the Director may, by similar instrument, revoke wholly or in part any authorisation under this section.

(8) An instrument purporting to be signed by a person in that person’s capacity as a delegate of the Trust, or as a person authorised under this section, shall in all courts and before all persons acting judicially be received in evidence as if it were an instrument duly executed by the Trust and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument signed by a delegate of the Trust or by a person duly authorised under this section, as the case may be.

(9) In subsection (8), 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).