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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement - Inspectors and response officers

331: Appointment of inspectors

You could also call this:

"The boss can choose someone to be an inspector and give them a special job to do."

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The Director can appoint someone as an inspector by giving them a written notice. You can be appointed as an inspector if you are an employee of the State services, a statutory officer, a prescribed person, an employee of the CAA, or an authorised security person. The Director can choose anyone for this role, as long as they have the right experience and qualifications.

The Director must make sure the person they choose has the skills and knowledge needed to do the job of an inspector. The Director decides what tasks and powers the inspector will have, and they write this down in the notice of appointment.

The inspector must follow any conditions or limitations that are written in their notice of appointment. If the inspector does something wrong, their actions are still valid, even if they did not follow the conditions exactly, you can find more information about this by looking at the relevant legislation.

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Part 9Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement
Inspectors and response officers

331Appointment of inspectors

  1. The Director may, by notice in writing, appoint any person as an inspector, including—

  2. an employee of the State services:
    1. a statutory officer:
      1. a prescribed person:
        1. an employee of the CAA:
          1. an authorised security person.

            1. The Director must not appoint a person as an inspector unless the Director is satisfied that the person has appropriate experience, technical competence, and qualifications relevant to the functions and powers proposed to be carried out and exercised by an inspector under this Act.

            2. An inspector may be appointed to perform and exercise those functions and powers of an inspector under this Act that the Director specifies in the notice of the inspector’s appointment.

            3. An inspector's functions and powers are subject to any conditions or limitations specified in the notice of the inspector's appointment.

            4. However, the performance or exercise of a function or power by an inspector is not invalid merely because it did not comply with the conditions specified in the notice of the inspector's appointment.

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