Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) The chief executive may delegate the chief executive's functions under this Act to a network chief executive or an appropriately qualified employee of the department.
(2) However, the chief executive must not delegate the function—
(a) to enter into a service agreement with a network; or
(b) to authorise the disclosure of confidential information in the public interest under section 160; or
(c) to issue a health service directive.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if the chief executive is considering whether, and the extent to which, to delegate to a network chief executive a matter that affects employees.
(4) The chief executive must have regard to the network's capacity and capability to effectively administer the human resource management and industrial relations processes for employees.
(5) A network chief executive, with the written approval of the chief executive, may subdelegate a function delegated to the network chief executive under subsection (1) to an appropriately qualified network health executive or network employee.
(6) A health executive in the department, with the written approval of the chief executive, may subdelegate a function delegated to the health executive under subsection (1) to an appropriately qualified departmental employee.
(7) In this section—
appropriately qualified includes having the qualifications, experience or standing appropriate to the exercise of the power.
Example of standing—
the person's classification level or how senior the person is in the department