New South Wales Consolidated Acts

YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 1973 - SECT 20

20 Authority during absences

(1) The Minister may, by an instrument in writing, authorise a person specified in the instrument to have the conduct of a residential centre for handicapped persons at licensed premises for a period so specified that occurs during an absence from the premises (by reason of illness or otherwise) of the person who is authorised by a licence or permit for the premises to have the conduct of a residential centre for handicapped persons at those premises.

(2) While a person is authorised by an instrument referred to in subsection (1) to have the conduct of a residential centre for handicapped persons at any premises:

(a) the person so authorised shall, for the purposes of section 22 (1) (b), be deemed to be authorised to have the conduct of a residential centre for handicapped persons at those premises by the licence or permit for those premises, and

(b) the conditions of the licence or permit applicable to the person in respect of whose absence the person was so authorised shall, for the purposes of section 22 (2), be deemed to be applicable to him or her as if the person were so authorised by the licence or permit.

(3) The Minister may, at any time and for any reason he or she considers sufficient, revoke the authority given to a person by an instrument referred to in subsection (1) by notice served on the person and stating that the authority has been revoked.