New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Rangers

• (1) The Director-General may from time to time appoint any suitable person to be a ranger in an honorary capacity for the purposes of this Act.

  (2) Every ranger appointed under this section shall be appointed for such term not exceeding 3 years as the Director-General thinks fit.

  (3) The Director-General shall supply to every ranger a written warrant signed by himself or on his behalf evidencing the appointment, and the production of that warrant shall be sufficient proof of the appointment.

  (4) Any ranger may at any time be removed from office by the Director-General for incapacity, neglect of duty, or misconduct, or may at any time resign his office by writing addressed to the Director-General.

  (5) Any ranger shall, on the expiration of the term of his appointment, or on the sooner expiry of his appointment by removal from office or resignation, surrender to the Director-General his warrant of appointment and any badge of office that may have been issued to him.

  (6) No person appointed by the Director-General under this section to be a ranger shall by virtue of that appointment be deemed to be employed in the service of Her Majesty for the purposes of the State Sector Act 1988 or of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956.

  (7) Every member of the police, every person appointed as a Fishery Officer under subsection (1) or deemed to have been appointed as a Fishery Officer by subsection (4) of section 76 of the Fisheries Act 1983, and every person appointed as a warranted officer under subsection (1) or deemed to have been appointed as a warranted officer by subsection (9) of section 59 of the Conservation Act 1987, shall by virtue of that person's office be deemed to be a ranger appointed by the Director-General to exercise the duties of a ranger under this Act generally in marine reserves throughout New Zealand.

  The words “Director-General” referred to in subsections (1) to (6) were substituted, as from 1 September 1972, for the words “Secretary for Marine” pursuant to section 6(1) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Amendment Act 1972 (1972 No 3).

  The reference to the “State Sector Act 1988” referred to in subsection (6) replaced a reference to the “State Services Act 1962”, as from 1 April 1988, pursuant to section 90(a) State Sector Act 1988 (1988 No 20).

  The reference to the “Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956” referred to in subsection (6) replaced a reference to the “Superannuation Act 1956”, as from 1 November 1976, pursuant to section 3(3) of the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1976 (1976 No 30).

  The original subsection 97) was amended, as from 14 February 1987, by section 5 Marine Reserves Amendment Act 1977 (1977 No 136) by inserting the words “and every Inspector of Sea Fishing within the meaning of section 4 of the Fisheries Act 1908”.

  Subsection (7) was substituted, as from 10 April 1990, by section 54 Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).