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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Administration - Co-ordinators, care managers, and district inspectors

144: Designation of district inspectors

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"The boss of health chooses special helpers called district inspectors to be in charge of certain areas."

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The Director-General of Health can choose someone to be a district inspector or deputy district inspector for a specific area. You will be told who is in charge of what area. The Director-General of Health must make sure there are enough district inspectors to make this law work. The Director-General of Health can only choose people who are already district inspectors or deputy district inspectors under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992. If someone is chosen as a deputy district inspector, they have the same powers as a district inspector, but they can only use those powers when told to by their boss or the Director-General of Health. The Minister can decide how much district inspectors or deputy district inspectors get paid, and they can change this amount or how it is paid, but only if the Minister of Finance agrees. When someone is no longer a district inspector or deputy district inspector under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, they can no longer be a district inspector or deputy district inspector for this law.

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Part 11Administration
Co-ordinators, care managers, and district inspectors

144Designation of district inspectors

  1. The Director-General of Health may, from time to time, by written notice, designate, on any terms and conditions specified in the notice, a person as a district inspector or deputy district inspector for the purposes of this Act in respect of a geographical area specified in the notice.

  2. The Director-General of Health must ensure that the number of district inspectors appointed under subsection (1) is at all times sufficient for the operation of this Act.

  3. The Director-General of Health may designate under subsection (1) only persons who are district inspectors or deputy district inspectors appointed under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.

  4. A designation under subsection (1) expires when the designated person ceases to be a district inspector or deputy district inspector under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.

  5. A person designated as a deputy district inspector—

  6. has the powers, duties, and functions conferred or imposed on a district inspector by this Act; but
    1. may exercise any such power, duty, or function only at the direction of—
      1. the district inspector to whom he or she is the deputy; or
        1. the Director-General of Health.

        2. The Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, fix the remuneration of district inspectors or deputy district inspectors designated under this section, either generally or in any particular case, and may, also with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, vary the amount or nature of that remuneration.