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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement - Inspectors and response officers

332: Appointment of response officers

You could also call this:

"The Director can choose someone to be a response officer to help with special jobs."

The Director can appoint someone as a response officer by giving them a written notice. You might be appointed as a response officer if you are an employee of the State services, which is explained in the Public Service Act 2020.

The Director will only appoint you if they think you have the right experience and qualifications for the job. As a response officer, you will be able to do certain tasks and have certain powers that the Director says you can have.

Your tasks and powers as a response officer might have some conditions or limitations, which will be stated in your appointment notice. If you do something as a response officer that does not follow these conditions, what you did is still valid.

Some other rules, like sections 333 to 335, also apply to response officers, but with some changes to make sense for response officers instead of inspectors.

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Inspectors and response officers

332Appointment of response officers

  1. The Director may, by notice in writing, appoint any person as a response officer, including—

  2. an employee of the State services (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 2020):
    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 a response officer 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 a response officer under this Act.

            2. A response officer may be appointed to perform and exercise the functions and powers under subpart 4 that the Director specifies in the notice of the officer’s appointment.

            3. A response officer’s functions and powers are subject to any conditions or limitations specified in the notice of the officer’s appointment.

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

            5. Sections 333 to 335 apply with any necessary modifications in respect of response officers appointed under this section as if references to an inspector were to a response officer.