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Animal Welfare Act 1999

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

126: Inspectors and auxiliary officers to act under direction of Director-General

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"Animal inspectors must follow the Director-General's instructions when doing their job."

When you are an inspector or auxiliary officer, you must follow the Director-General's directions when using your powers and doing your job under the Animal Welfare Act 1999. You have to do what the Director-General says when it comes to your work with animals. If there is a conflict between your job with an approved organisation and your job under this Act, the rules of the Act come first.

If you have two jobs, one with an organisation and one under the Animal Welfare Act 1999, and they disagree, you follow the Act's rules. The Director-General is in charge of making sure you do your job correctly under the Act. You can find more information about this by looking at the related legislation.

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

126Inspectors and auxiliary officers to act under direction of Director-General

  1. All inspectors and auxiliary officers must act under the direction of the Director-General in the exercise and performance of the powers, duties, and functions conferred or imposed on them under this Act.

  2. In the event of any conflict arising between the powers, duties, and functions conferred or imposed on an inspector or auxiliary officer, as the case may be, as an employee or member of an approved organisation and the powers, duties, and functions conferred or imposed on that inspector or auxiliary officer under this Act, the powers, duties, and functions conferred or imposed on that inspector or auxiliary officer under this Act prevail.

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