New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ESSENTIAL SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 12

12 Appointment of inspectors

(1) The Minister or a Minister specified in a proclamation under section 8 or an order under section 10 may authorise a person to carry out inspections for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Minister granting the authorisation shall provide an inspector with a certificate of the inspector's authority in the prescribed form.

(3) An inspector, in exercising in any place any function conferred or imposed under this Act, shall, if so required by a person apparently in charge of that place, produce the certificate of authority to that person.