Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 253

253 Role of chief executive officer

(1) The chief executive officer is responsible to the commission for the administration of the commission.

(2) The chief executive officer is to—

(a) perform the functions, and exercise the powers, of the commission delegated to the chief executive officer under section 269 ; and

(b) perform the functions and exercise the powers delegated to the chief executive officer by the chairperson; and

(c) perform the other functions, and exercise the other powers, conferred on the chief executive officer under this Act.

(3) In performing a function or exercising a power under this Act, the chief executive officer is subject to the direction of—

(a) for a function or power delegated to the chief executive officer by the chairperson—the chairperson; or

(b) otherwise—the commission.

(4) The chief executive is to report to the commission on—

(a) all matters relating to the administration of the commission; and

(b) the performance of the functions and exercise of the powers mentioned in subsection (2) (a) and (c) .

(5) Anything done in the commission’s name by the chief executive officer or chief executive officer’s delegate is taken to have been done by the commission.