Appointment of inspectors
156 Appointment of inspectors
The regulator may, by instrument, appoint any of the following as an inspector:
a public sector employee under the Public
Sector Act 2009;
the holder of a statutory office;
a person who is appointed as an inspector or authorised officer under a corresponding WHS law;
a person in a prescribed class of persons.
Without limiting subsection (1), the following persons will be taken to have been appointed as inspectors:
in relation to mines to which the Mines and Works Inspection Act 1920 applies—an inspector of mines under that Act;
in relation to operations to which the Offshore
Minerals Act 2000 applies—an inspector under that Act;
in relation to operations to which the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000 applies—an authorised officer under that Act;
in relation to operations to which the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982 applies—an inspector under that Act;
any other person who may exercise statutory powers under another Act brought within the ambit of this subsection by the regulations.
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