Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Appointments and delegations

101: Chief technical officers

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The Director-General will appoint chief technical officers who have the right experience and skills for the job. You can think of the Director-General like a boss who makes important decisions. The chief technical officers will help with responsibilities given to them by the Director-General. The boss of a department that deals with natural resources or human health can also appoint chief technical officers. These officers must have the right experience and skills for the job and must be employed under the Public Service Act 2020. A chief technical officer appointed by a department boss can do most of the things that a chief technical officer can do, except for a few specific tasks like those mentioned in sections 103(1), 116, 126, and 127. The Director-General or a department boss cannot give someone else the power to appoint chief technical officers.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Appointments and delegations

101Chief technical officers

The Director-General shall appoint chief technical officers for the purposes of this Act, being in each case a person with appropriate experience, technical competence, and qualifications relevant to the area of responsibilities allocated by the Director-General to that person.
The chief executive of a department recognised by the responsible Minister as having responsibilities for natural and physical resources or human health that could be adversely affected by an organism may appoint chief technical officers for the purposes of this Act, being in each case a person with appropriate experience, technical competence, and qualifications relevant to the area of responsibilities allocated by the chief executive to that person.
A person appointed as a chief technical officer must be employed under the Public Service Act 2020.
A chief technical officer appointed under subsection (2) may exercise all the powers and perform all the functions and duties conferred on a chief technical officer by this Act except those powers conferred under sections 103(1), 116, 126, and 127.
The chief executive (including the Director-General) may not delegate to any person the power to appoint chief technical officers.

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Notes

Section 101(2): replaced, on 26 November 1997, by section 66 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
Section 101(2A): inserted, on 8 July 2003, by section 11 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).
Section 101(2A): amended, on 7 August 2020, by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
Section 101(3): inserted, on 26 November 1997, by section 66 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
Section 101(4): inserted, on 15 December 2005, by section 3 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 91).