Public Health Act 2016

An enforcement agency may designate a person or class of persons as authorised officers —

for the purposes of this Act or another specified Act; or

for the purposes of the specified provisions of this Act or another specified Act; or

for the purposes of the provisions of this Act or another specified Act other than the specified provisions of that Act.

The Chief Health Officer may designate a person or class of persons under subsection (1) only if the person or, as the case requires, the persons in that class are public health officials.

An enforcement agency that is a local government may designate under subsection (1) —

an environmental health officer or environmental health officers as a class; or

a person who is not an environmental health officer or a class of persons who are not environmental health officers; or

a mixture of the two.

Enforcement agencies that are local governments may act jointly in the designation of persons or classes of persons as authorised officers.