Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

QUARANTINE ACT 1908 - SECT 9A

             (1)  A Director of Quarantine may, by writing signed by him or her, appoint:

                     (a)  an APS employee; or

                     (b)  a State officer; or

                     (c)  a police officer; or

                     (d)  a protective service officer; or

                     (e)  an employee of a body corporate established or continued in existence for a public purpose by or under a Commonwealth law, if the body corporate is prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;

to be a temporary quarantine officer for such period as he or she thinks necessary.

          (1A)  Where the Governor‑General has, in pursuance of section 2B, declared the existence of an epidemic or the danger of an epidemic in any part of the Commonwealth, any person thereto authorized in writing by a Director of Quarantine may, either orally or in writing, authorize any person to act during any specified period as a temporary quarantine officer in that part of the Commonwealth.

          (1B)  A person appointed as a temporary quarantine officer under subsection (1) or authorised to act as a temporary quarantine officer under subsection (1A) is, in the performance of his or her functions and in the exercise of his or her powers, subject to the directions of a Chief Quarantine Officer or the relevant Director of Quarantine.

             (2)  Temporary quarantine officers shall, for the period of their appointment or authority to act, have all the powers of a quarantine officer appointed under section 9.

             (3)  Any appointment made or authority given in pursuance of this section shall not confer on the person appointed or authorized any claim to be permanently appointed in any capacity.