New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK FOODS ACT 1940 - SECT 20

20 Authorisation of inspectors and analysts

(1) The Director-General may, by order in writing, authorise:

(a) a member of the Public Service or of the Public Service of the Commonwealth or a member of the Police Force to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act, and

(b) any person who has such experience and qualifications as the Director-General considers sufficient to be an analyst for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Director-General shall not delegate the power to make orders under this section.

(3) Any person who, immediately before the commencement of this subsection, was an inspector or an analyst within the meaning of this Act shall, on that commencement, be deemed to have been authorised to be an inspector, or an analyst, for the purposes of this Act, by an order made under this section.

(4) An analysis for the purposes of this Act may be carried out by a person acting under the supervision of an analyst and, in any such case, the analysis is to be taken to have been carried out by the analyst.