Queensland Consolidated Acts

FAMILY SERVICES ACT 1987 - SECT 4

(1) The chief executive may appoint, in writing, such persons, having qualifications or experience appropriate to the proper discharge of their duties, as the chief executive thinks fit, to be honorary officers--

(a) for the purpose of assisting officers of the department in giving effect to this Act or any other Act; and

(b) for a term not exceeding 2 years; and

(c) upon such terms and conditions as the chief executive thinks fit and specifies in the officers' appointments.

(2) An honorary officer may be reappointed from time to time for a term not exceeding 2 years in respect of any reappointment.

(3) The chief executive, by writing addressed to an honorary officer, may remove the officer from his or her appointment at any time.

(4) The chief executive may pay an honorary officer such amounts as the chief executive thinks fit to reimburse the officer for expenses reasonably incurred, or reasonably expected to be incurred, in the course of the officer's duties.

(5) The chief executive shall arrange for an honorary officer to receive such training and to be subject to such supervision as the chief executive thinks fit.

(6) An honorary officer, while carrying out the duties of an honorary officer, is taken to be employed by the chief executive.

(7) The chief executive must enter into a contract of insurance with Workcover Queensland or another insurer for insurance for honorary officers.