New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46W

46W Appointment of authorised officers

(1) A regulator may appoint a member of staff of the regulator (or if the regulator is TfNSW, a member of staff of TfNSW) or a person of a class prescribed by the regulations, to be an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act.

(2) An authorised officer appointed by Roads and Maritime Services may exercise the functions of an authorised officer under this Act only in so far as those functions relate to any one or more of the following:

(a) a public passenger service carried on by means of a ferry,

(b) a person who carries on a public passenger service by means of a ferry,

(c) the employees of a person who carries on a public passenger service by means of a ferry.

(3) An authorised officer appointed by TfNSW may exercise the functions of an authorised officer under this Act except in so far as those functions relate to any of the matters set out in subsection (2).

(4) The authority of an authorised officer may be limited by the relevant instrument of appointment to the functions specified in the instrument of appointment.

(5) In addition to other persons who may be appointed as authorised officers under this Act, a regulator may, for the purposes of a specified bus or ferry accident or incident, appoint as an authorised officer a person exercising powers, or holding office under a Commonwealth Act.