Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may,
from time to time, appoint a Chief Agriculture Protection Officer and such
number of Deputy Chief Agriculture Protection Officers as he considers
necessary.
(2) If the Chief
Officer is sick or otherwise incapacitated or is absent, or if the office of
Chief Officer is for the time being vacant, a Deputy Chief Officer may
exercise and perform the powers, authorities, functions and duties conferred
or imposed on the Chief Officer by this Act or any other Act.
(3) The Minister may,
from time to time, appoint officers or employees of the Protection Board to be
agriculture protection inspectors.
(4) Every inspector
shall be furnished with a certificate of his appointment signed by either the
Minister or the Chief Officer and shall, if required to do so, produce that
certificate to the owner or occupier of any land or premises he may enter
pursuant to the powers conferred on him by this Act.
(5) Appointment of a
person under this section shall not of itself render the provisions of
Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 , the Public Service
Appeal Board Act 1920 3 or the Superannuation and Family Benefits
Act 1938 4 applicable to him if not applicable to him at the time
of his being so appointed nor affect the application of those provisions to
him if they applied to him at the time of his being so appointed.
[Section 9 amended by No. 32 of 1994
s. 3(1); No. 1 of 1995 s. 35.]