Appointment of inspectors
14 Appointment of inspectors
The Director-General may, by instrument in writing, appoint persons to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act.
An inspector has such functions as are conferred on the inspector by this Act or the regulations.
Each person appointed as an inspector is to be issued with a certificate of authority that states the name of the inspector and the fact of his or her appointment.
A former inspector must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to return his or her certificate of authority to the Director-General on demand. Maximum penalty—1 penalty unit.
The regulations may prescribe classes of inspectors (however described) appointed under other legislation who are to be taken to be inspectors appointed under this section.
If an inspector of a class so prescribed has a certificate of authority (however described) by virtue of other legislation under which he or she is an inspector—
the certificate of authority may be used by the inspector for the purposes of this Act as if it had been issued under this section, and
subsection (4) does not apply to the certificate of authority.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
, The regulations may prescribe
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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