New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FUNERAL FUNDS ACT 1979 - SECT 8

8 Inspectors

(1) The Minister may appoint inspectors for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Minister shall not appoint a person, other than a person appointed and employed under the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 , as an inspector under subsection (1) unless the person is appointed:

(a) with the approval of the Public Service Board and on such terms and conditions as may be approved by that Board, and

(b) for a term not exceeding 3 years.

(3) A person, other than a person appointed and employed under the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 , who is appointed as an inspector under subsection (1) is not, in his or her capacity as an inspector, an officer within the meaning of that Act but, if the terms and conditions on which the person is appointed so provide, any specified provisions of that Act or the Regulations thereunder, whether with or without specified modifications, apply to and in respect of the person as if the person were an employee within the meaning of that Act.

(3A) An investigator appointed under the Fair Trading Act 1987 is taken to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act.

(4) An inspector shall be provided by the Director-General with a certificate of his or her authority as an inspector.

(5) An inspector, on exercising in any place a power conferred on the inspector by or under this Act, shall, if so requested by a person apparently in charge of that place or of any work being performed there, produce the certificate of his or her authority as an inspector.