2017-12-12 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 7 - Updated Delegations of Authority

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DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                      LEGISLATION
Power, as a prescribed employee’s employer, to pay superannuation                   Section 219(2)
contributions payable for the employee into another fund directed by the
employee.
Power, as a local government other than the Brisbane City Council, to comply        Section 219A
with a notice giving by the LGIAsuper Trustee under subsection 219A(1).
Power, as a local government, to deduct all or part of the employee’s               Section
contributions from the employee’s salary or any money that the employee owes        220A(4)
to Council.
Power, in the circumstances set out in subsection 220B(1), to agree in writing Section
with an employee:-                                                                220B(2)
(a)    to reduce the pre-agreement contributions to the amount equal to the
employee’s concessional contributions cap for the financial year; and
(b)    if a yearly contribution made under section 220A(3) is part of the pre-
agreement contributions – on the extent, if any to which a contribution mentioned
in 220B(1)(a) of (b) will be reduced to achieve the reduction.
Power, where the pre-agreement contributions are reduced under subsection Section
220B(2), to pay the amount of the reduction to the employee as salary.    220B(3)
Power, as an employer, to agree in writing with an employee:-                  Section 221(2)
(a)    that the employee is exempt, on the grounds of the employee’s financial
hardship, from paying all or a stated part of the contributions payable under
section 220A(2) by the employee; and
(b)    on the period, of not more than 1 year, of the exemption.
Power, as an employer, to give a copy of the agreement made under subsection Section 221(4)
220(2) to the relevant trustee.
Power, as an employer who has received a notice from the employee under             Section 222(3)
subsection 222(2), to calculate the yearly contributions payable for the employee
based on the employee’s salary before it was decreased.
Power, in the circumstances set out in subsection 224(1), to pay interest on the    Section 224(2)
amount of the contribution to the relevant fund for the employee.
Power, as a local government (other than the Brisbane City Council), to, for its Section 226(1)
councillors:-
(a)     establish and amend a superannuation scheme; or
(b)     take part in a superannuation scheme
Power, as a local government who has exercised its power under subsection Section 226(2
226(1), to pay an amount from its operating fund to the superannuation scheme
as a contribution for its councillors.

2.    To exercise the powers of Council pursuant to the Local Government Regulation 2012.

DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                      LEGISLATION
Rates & Charges
Power to identify, in any way considered appropriate, parcels of rateable land to   Section 77(2)
which a minimum amount of general rates apply.
Power to allow a longer period than prescribed for the owner of land to object to   Section 88(4)(d)
the categorisation of the owner’s land for rating purposes.                         (ii)




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