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Animal Products Act 1999

Officers, powers, etc - Animal product officers and official assessors

78: Appointment of animal product officers

You could also call this:

"The boss can choose people to help enforce animal product laws and give them special jobs to do."

The Director-General can appoint people as animal product officers to help with this Act. You need to know that these officers must work under the Public Service Act 2020. When someone is appointed as an animal product officer, they can be given all the powers and functions of the role, or just some of them.

The Director-General decides what powers and functions each officer gets, and they can tell the officer in writing. The officer's powers and functions are stated in their appointment document or in a later notice from the Director-General. You can find more information about the Public Service Act 2020 at Public Service Act 2020.

The Director-General is in charge of appointing animal product officers and giving them their powers and functions. These officers have to follow the rules of the Public Service Act 2020. The officers' roles and powers are defined when they are appointed, and the Director-General can give them more information in writing.

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Part 7Officers, powers, etc
Animal product officers and official assessors

78Appointment of animal product officers

  1. The Director-General may from time to time appoint persons as animal product officers for the purposes of this Act.

  2. Persons appointed under subsection (1) must be employed under the Public Service Act 2020.

  3. An animal product officer may be authorised, on his or her appointment, to exercise all of the powers and functions conferred on animal product officers under this Act, or only those powers and functions specified in the officer's instrument of appointment or subsequent written notice from the Director-General to the officer.

Notes
  • Section 78(2): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).