(a) appoint State Service officers and State Service employees employed in the
Department; and
(b) with the approval of another Head of a State Service Agency, appoint State
Service officers and State Service employees employed in that Agency –
to
be inspectors for the purposes of this Act and those officers and employees
are to hold office in conjunction with State Service employment.
(2) An inspector within the meaning of the Work Health and Safety Act
2012 shall, while continuing to hold office as such, be deemed to hold office
as an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The Minister may furnish to an inspector a certificate stating that
he is an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
(4) Where a person ceases to hold office as an inspector, that person
shall forthwith surrender the certificate furnished to him under this section
to the Minister or, if the Minister, by instrument in writing served on that
person, specifies another person to whom the certificate is to be surrendered,
to that other person.
(5) A person to whom subsection (4) applies who fails to comply with
that subsection is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
not exceeding 5 penalty units.
