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Fair Trading Act 1986

Product safety - Product safety officers

33A: Appointment of product safety officers

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"Who can be chosen as a product safety officer to help keep people safe"

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The chief executive can appoint someone as a product safety officer if they pass certain exams. You need to pass exams that test your knowledge of the Fair Trading Act and the role of product safety officers. The chief executive can also appoint someone as a trainee product safety officer, even if they have not passed these exams. The chief executive can choose someone to be a trainee product safety officer. When a trainee product safety officer is supervised by a product safety officer, they are treated as a product safety officer. This is for the purposes of the Fair Trading Act. You can find more information about this by looking at the Fair Trading Act 1986 and the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013.

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33AAppointment of product safety officers

  1. The chief executive may appoint as a product safety officer any person who has passed such examinations as the chief executive requires to test the person's knowledge of this Act and the functions and powers of product safety officers.

  2. The chief executive may appoint a person as a trainee product safety officer, whether or not the person has passed the examinations referred to in subsection (1).

  3. For the purposes of this Act, a trainee product safety officer acting under the supervision of a product safety officer is deemed to be a product safety officer.

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  • Section 33A: inserted, on , by section 22 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 143).