Authorised officers
50 Authorised officers
The Secretary may appoint a person employed in the Ministry of Health, or a person of a class prescribed by the regulations, to be an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act.
An authorised officer may exercise such functions as are conferred on an authorised officer by this Act or the regulations.
The Secretary is to provide each authorised officer with an identification card that—
states that it is issued under this Act, and
gives the name of the person to whom it is issued, and
describes the nature of the powers conferred, and
states the date (if any) on which it expires, and
is signed by the Secretary.
In the course of exercising the functions of an authorised officer under this Act, the authorised officer must, if requested to do so by a person affected by the exercise of any such function, produce the authorised officer’s identification card to the person.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
, the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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