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Environment Act 1986

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - Administrative provisions

13: Employment of consultants

You could also call this:

"The Commissioner can hire experts to help make good decisions about the environment."

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The Commissioner can choose people with special knowledge to help with inquiries, research, and reports. You can think of the Commissioner like a boss who needs experts to make good decisions. The Commissioner decides how these helpers will work and what they will do. The Commissioner also gets to decide the rules for these helpers, like how much they get paid. This means the Commissioner is in charge of making sure the helpers know what to do. The Commissioner wants to make sure they have the right people to help them make good choices about the environment.

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Part 1Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Administrative provisions

13Employment of consultants

  1. The Commissioner may from time to time appoint any person with expert knowledge, or who is otherwise able to assist the Commissioner, to make such inquiries, conduct such research, and make such reports as the Commissioner considers will better enable the Commissioner to exercise and perform the Commissioner's powers and functions under this Act.

  2. The Commissioner shall determine the terms and conditions under which any person is appointed under subsection (1).

Notes
  • Section 13(2): substituted, on , by section 4 of the Environment Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 11).