Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN PROTECTIVE SERVICE ACT 1987 No. 7 of 1987 - SECT 9

9. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the Director may, by instrument signed by
him or her, appoint as a special protective service officer a person who is an
officer or employee within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922.

(2) The Director shall not appoint a person as a special protective service
officer unless the Director has previously obtained the written consent of the
person's Secretary within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922.

(3) A special protective service officer has all the powers and duties of a
protective service officer except in so far as any of those powers or duties
are excluded or limited in the instrument of his or her appointment, and any
such exclusion or limitation may be expressed either generally or in relation
to persons, places or things.