Litter Act 1979

Litter Control Officers

5: Litter Control Officers

You could also call this:

"People chosen to help keep areas clean and tidy are called Litter Control Officers"

A public authority can choose someone to be a Litter Control Officer. This person can work alone or with other officers. They can be employed by the authority or not. You can be a Litter Control Officer in the area where the public authority is in charge. The authority decides how much you get paid and what your work conditions are.

When you are appointed as a Litter Control Officer, you get a written warrant to prove it. You have to give this warrant back when you stop being an officer. The authority can say where you can work as a Litter Control Officer, and they can give you a warrant that says this.

The Litter Amendment Act 1990 changed some of the rules about Litter Control Officers, you can read about it here. You work as a Litter Control Officer until your appointment ends, then you return your warrant. The public authority is in charge of Litter Control Officers and decides where they work.

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Topics:

Environment and resources > ConservationGovernment and voting > Local councils

4: Responsibility for promotion of litter control, or

"Who helps keep New Zealand clean and stops litter?"

6: Other Litter Control Officers, or

"Who can be a Litter Control Officer to help keep New Zealand clean"

5Litter Control Officers

Every public authority may from time to time, either alone or jointly with another public authority or other public authorities, appoint any suitable person or persons (whether already employed by an authority or not) to be a Litter Control Officer to exercise the powers and duties conferred on the Officer by this Act—
within the district or districts of the public authority or public authorities which appointed him and within any other area or place under the control of that authority or those authorities; or
if the appointing authority or authorities think fit, within such part or parts of their district or districts or other areas or places under their control as they may specify in his warrant of appointment supplied under subsection (3).

Every such appointment shall be on such terms concerning remuneration and other conditions of employment as the appointing authority or authorities may determine.
The authority shall supply to every Officer appointed by it a written warrant evidencing the appointment, and the production of that warrant shall be sufficient proof of the appointment.
Every Officer shall, on the termination of his appointment, whether by removal from office or by resignation, surrender to the authority employing him his warrant of appointment.

Compare

1968 No 134 s 4
1970 No 80 s 2

Notes

Section 5(3): substituted, on 19 March 1990, by section 2(1) of the Litter Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 9).
Section 5(4): amended, on 19 March 1990, by section 2(2) of the Litter Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 9).