Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Approved organisations, inspectors, and auxiliary officers

125: Appointment of auxiliary officers

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"The Director-General can choose helpers, called auxiliary officers, to assist with animal welfare laws."

The Director-General can appoint someone to be an auxiliary officer to help with the Animal Welfare Act. You are appointed to help with this Act when the Director-General chooses you, based on a recommendation from an approved organisation. The Director-General can appoint you at any time.

When you are appointed as an auxiliary officer, you are not considered to be employed in the public service for the purposes of the Public Service Act 2020 or the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956. The Director-General can suspend your appointment as an auxiliary officer at any time.

The Director-General can also cancel your appointment as an auxiliary officer at any time. This means the Director-General has control over who is an auxiliary officer and for how long.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Approved organisations, inspectors, and auxiliary officers

125Appointment of auxiliary officers

  1. The Director-General may from time to time, on the recommendation of an approved organisation, appoint any person to be an auxiliary officer for the purposes of this Act.

  2. No person appointed by the Director-General under this section to be an auxiliary officer is by virtue of that appointment employed in the public service for the purposes of the Public Service Act 2020 or the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956.

  3. The Director-General may at any time suspend a person's appointment as an auxiliary officer.

  4. The Director-General may at any time revoke any appointment made under subsection (1).

Notes
  • Section 125(2): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
  • Section 125(2A): inserted, on , by section 47 of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).