The exercise of delegated power is well established in one of Australia's oldest pieces of legislation. It is very formal and has been consistently tested in dozens of court cases. Once the minister delegates the power, as Mark Butler has done over almost every aspect of PBS decision-making, they formally remove themselves from the decision.
'It is not an act of the person who delegated the power to the delegate'
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