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Fair Trading Act 1986

Product safety - Product safety officers

33A: Appointment of product safety officers

You could also call this:

“Rules for choosing people to check if things are safe to use”

The chief executive can choose people to be product safety officers. To become a product safety officer, you need to pass tests that show you understand the law and what product safety officers do.

The chief executive can also make someone a trainee product safety officer. Trainees don’t need to have passed the tests yet.

When a trainee product safety officer works under the watch of a full product safety officer, they are treated the same as a regular product safety officer for this law.

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