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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Chief executive may approve persons to have principal role in developing standards

96: When person must be approved under this subpart

You could also call this:

"You need special approval to help make government rules if you don't work for the government"

If you're not working for the government, you might still be asked to help make important rules. The person in charge (called the chief executive) might think it's a good idea for someone outside the government to take the lead in making these rules. If this happens, you need to get special approval before you can do this job.

You also need to get approval if you've made (or are going to make) some guidelines or rules that the government wants to use as part of their official standards. This applies even if the government plans to change your rules a bit before using them.

In this part of the law, there are two important terms to know. An "approved person" is someone who has been given permission to help make these rules. A "non-public service person" is anyone who doesn't work for the government.

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Part 5Administrative matters
Chief executive may approve persons to have principal role in developing standards

96When person must be approved under this subpart

  1. Subsection (2) applies if the chief executive considers that—

  2. it is necessary or desirable for a non-public service person to have the principal role in the development of any standards in relation to particular designation regulations; and
    1. the person should be approved under this subpart in order to ensure that they are an appropriate person to perform that role.

      1. The person may perform that role only if they are approved under this subpart.

      2. Subsection (1)(a) must be treated as applying to a person if—

      3. they have issued, or will issue, a standard, framework, code of practice, recommended practice, or requirement (the material); and
        1. the chief executive proposes to incorporate by reference the material in any standards (whether in whole or in part, and with or without modification); and
          1. the chief executive considers that the standards will be wholly or predominantly based on the material.

            1. In this subpart,—

              approved person means a person approved under this subpart

                non-public service person means a person outside the public service (within the meaning of section 10 of the Public Service Act 2020).