Animal Products Act 1999

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

79: Appointment of official assessors

You could also call this:

"Who can be chosen to check animal products and make sure they are safe?"

The Director-General can appoint people to check animal products. You need to be employed under the Public Service Act 2020 to be appointed.

The Minister can also appoint people to check animal products. These people work in a State enterprise, as defined in the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986, or in a Crown entity, as defined in the Public Finance Act 1989.

To be appointed, you must have the right skills, qualifications, and experience. You can be given all the powers of an official assessor or just some of them.

If you are appointed by the Minister, you are not considered a public servant under the Public Service Act 2020 or the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956.

The Minister can stop or cancel an appointment at any time.

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78: Appointment of animal product officers, or

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

80: Director-General may issue notices, or

"The boss of animal products can send out important notices"

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

79Appointment of official assessors

The Director-General may from time to time appoint official assessors for the purpose of carrying out such routine examinations of animal material and products as may be required for the purposes of this Act, and particularly for the purpose of enabling official assurances to be given under this Act. Persons appointed under this subsection must be employed under the Public Service Act 2020.
The Minister may from time to time appoint as official assessors for the purposes of this Act persons employed in a State enterprise within the meaning of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 or in a Crown entity as defined in the Public Finance Act 1989, for the purpose of carrying out routine examinations of animal material and products for the purposes of this Act, and particularly for the purpose of enabling official assurances to be given under this Act.
A person must not be appointed as an official assessor unless the person has the competencies, qualifications, and experience, and meets any other prerequisites for appointment, set out in the regulations or any supplementary notice or by the Director-General by notice under section 167(1).
An official assessor may be authorised, on his or her appointment, to exercise all of the powers and functions conferred on official assessors under this Act, or only those powers and functions specified in the assessor's instrument of appointment or subsequent written notice from the Director-General to the assessor.
No person is to be treated as employed in the State services for the purposes of the Public Service Act 2020, or in the Government service for the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, by reason only of the person's appointment under subsection (2).
The Minister may suspend or revoke an appointment made under this section.

Notes

Section 79(1): amended, on 7 August 2020, by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
Section 79(2): amended, on 26 September 2002, by section 35 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
Section 79(2A): inserted, on 2 March 2018, by section 123(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 79(4): amended, on 7 August 2020, by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
Section 79(5): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 123(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).