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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99A: Appointment of enforcement officers

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"Who can be chosen as enforcement officers to help keep the law"

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The chief executive can choose people who work for the government to be enforcement officers. You will be given some powers and jobs to do if you are chosen. The chief executive must give you a special card that says what you can and can't do. When you are working as an enforcement officer, you must carry this card and some ID with you. If someone asks, you have to show them these things. If you stop being an enforcement officer, you have to give your special card back to the chief executive.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99AAppointment of enforcement officers

  1. The chief executive may appoint 1 or more persons who are employees of a government department, a Crown entity, or a local authority to exercise 1 or more of the powers and perform the functions conferred on enforcement officers under this Act.

  2. The chief executive must supply each enforcement officer with a warrant of authorisation that clearly states the powers and functions of the officer.

  3. An enforcement officer who exercises, or purports to exercise, a power conferred on the enforcement officer under this Act must carry and produce, if required to do so,—

  4. his or her warrant of authorisation; and
    1. evidence of his or her identity.

      1. An enforcement officer must, on the termination of the enforcement officer's appointment, surrender his or her warrant to the chief executive.

      Notes
      • Section 99A: inserted, on , by section 52 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).