MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                   Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                                           Chapter 11 Administration
                                                                  Part 2 Delegations

                                                                             [s 517]

                     (i)   authorised person; or
                     (ii) public service officer; or
              (b)    a local government.
        (2)   A delegation of a chief executive’s power to a local
              government may permit the subdelegation of the power to an
              appropriately qualified entity.

517      Delegation by administering executive or local
         government chief executive officer
        (1)   The chief executive’s powers under this Act as the
              administering executive may be delegated or subdelegated in
              the same way as the chief executive’s powers may be
              delegated or subdelegated under section 516.
        (2)   A local government’s chief executive officer may delegate the
              officer’s powers under this Act, as the administering executive
              or otherwise, to an appropriately qualified employee of the
              local government.
        (3)   A delegation under subsection (2) of a power of a local
              government’s chief executive officer to an employee of a local
              government may permit the subdelegation of the power to
              another appropriately qualified employee of the local
              government.

518      Delegation by administering authority
        (1)   An administering authority may—
              (a)    if the authority is the chief executive—delegate the
                     authority’s powers under this Act to—
                     (i)   an authorised person or public service officer; or
                     (ii) a local government; or
              (b)    if the authority is a local government—by resolution,
                     delegate the authority’s powers under this Act to an
                     appropriately qualified entity.
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