Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) The Secretary may appoint as inspectors for the purposes of this Act or such of the purposes as are specified in the certificates of their appointment –
(a) State Service officers and State Service employees employed in the Department; or
(b) with the approval of the Head of a State Service Agency, State Service officers and State Service employees employed in that Agency.
(2) The Secretary is to issue an inspector appointed under subsection (1) with –
(a) a certificate of appointment; and
(b) an identity card.
(2A) An inspector is to show his or her identity card to –
a workplace or place at which the inspector proposes to exercise his or her powers or perform his or her functions under this Act.(a) the owner, principal or person who has control or management of; or
(b) the employer at –
(2B) A failure by an inspector to show his or her identity card does not invalidate any subsequent exercise of the inspector's powers.
(3) The Secretary may authorise a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (1), to perform such of the functions and exercise such of the powers of an inspector under this Act as are specified in the certificates of their authorisation.
(4) The Secretary is to issue a person authorised under subsection (3) with a certificate of authorisation.
(5) The Secretary may require inspectors appointed under this section to hold such qualifications as may be prescribed.