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Authority Administration · Customer guide

Roles & Permissions

A read-only reference catalogue of every Authority role — what it can do, what it can grant, and what it takes to hold it.

Audience: Authority administrators Part of the Authority guide set

What this guide covers: reading the role catalogue and using the role-compare tool. There's nothing to configure here — see the note below.

The catalogue

The catalogue

Found at Authority Administration → Roles & Permissions — an expansion-panel list, one per role, showing its classification (administrative or operational), rank, full scope list, which subordinate roles it can grant, which position types it's compatible with, and four yes/no capability flags: administer users, manage service responsibilities, acknowledge submissions, and assign submissions.

This page is deliberately read-only. There's no custom role editor, no free-text scopes, and no create/edit/delete action anywhere on it — it exists so anyone provisioning a user (see Authority Users) can check what a role actually grants before assigning it.
Comparing roles

Comparing roles

The Compare Roles tool lets you multi-select roles and renders a scope-by-scope check/cross matrix across them — the fastest way to see exactly what changes if you're deciding between two similar roles for a new officer.