Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FARM HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT ACT 1992 - SECT 53A

             (1)  If the Secretary delegates to:

                     (a)  the Chief Executive Centrelink; or

                     (b)  a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997 );

a power under this Act to require a person to produce or give to the Department any document or information, the delegate may, in exercising the power, require the person to produce or give the document or information to the Human Services Department instead of the Department.

             (2)  A person who produces or gives a document or information to the Human Services Department in compliance with a requirement by a delegate of the Secretary is to be treated for all purposes as if the person had produced or given the document to the Department in compliance with a requirement by the Secretary.

             (3)  A person who does not produce or give a document or information to the Human Services Department in compliance with a requirement by a delegate of the Secretary is to be treated for all purposes as if the person had not produced or given the document or information to the Department in compliance with a requirement by the Secretary.

             (4)  If:

                     (a)  the Secretary delegates to the Chief Executive Centrelink or a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997 ) all or any of the Secretary's powers under this Act; and

                     (b)  the delegation makes a reference to the Secretary or the Department in another provision of this Act inappropriate, whether for administrative reasons or any other reason;

the Secretary may direct that the provision is to have effect as if:

                     (c)  the reference to the Secretary were a reference to the Chief Executive Centrelink; or

                     (d)  a reference to the Department were a reference to the Human Services Department;

as the case requires.

             (5)  If the Secretary gives a direction in relation to a provision, the provision has effect in accordance with the direction while the direction is in force.

             (6)  A direction comes into force on the day it is notified in the Gazette , or on such later day as is specified in it, and remains in force until it is revoked.

             (7)  A direction is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

             (8)  In this section:

"this Act" includes the DEP scheme, the farm help re-establishment grant scheme and the farm help advice and training scheme.