AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Administration (Amendment) Act 1989
No. 5 of 1989
	
An Act to amend the Administration Act 1989
[Notified in ACT Gazette S12: 20 July 1989]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Administration (Amendment) Act 1989.
Delegations
2.  Section 5 of the Administration Act 19891 is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from subsection (2) “this section” and substituting “that subsection”;
	(b)	by omitting from subsection (3) “This section has” and substituting “Subsections (1) and (2) have”; and
	(c)	by adding at the end the following subsections:
“(4) An administrative head may, by instrument, delegate to any person all or any of his or her powers under—
	(a)	a Commonwealth Act;
	(b)	an instrument of a legislative nature (including a regulation, rule or by-law) made under a Commonwealth Act; or
	(c)	an instrument of delegation made under a Commonwealth Act.
“(5)  Subsection (4) extends to the sub-delegation by an Associate Head of Administration of a power delegated to him or her by the Head of Administration under that subsection.”.

NOTE
1.	Ordinance No. 41, 1989.
[Minister’s presentation speech made in Assembly on 29 June 1989]

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