Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if—

an Act (authorising law) authorises someone (appointer) to appoint public officials for giving effect to the authorising law; and

a police officer may be appointed as a public official under the authorising law.

Despite the authorising law, the appointer may appoint a police officer as a public official for the authorising law only with the commissioner’s written approval to the proposed appointment.

The commissioner may approve the proposed appointment only if the commissioner is satisfied the police officer proposed to be appointed—

has the necessary experience or expertise to be a public official for the authorising law; or

has satisfactorily completed a course of training approved by the commissioner.

A police officer may exercise powers as a public official under an authorising law only if and to the extent the commissioner approves the police officer’s appointment under this section.

If, under the authorising law, the commissioner is the appointer for police officers, this section does not prevent the commissioner from appointing a police officer as a public official under the authorising law.