Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 518

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.

(2) A delegation of a power as follows may permit the subdelegation of the power to an appropriately qualified entity—

(a) a power of the chief executive, as the administering authority, delegated to a local government;

(b) a power of a local government as the administering authority.