New Zealand Legislation: Acts

4 Meaning of officer

• (1) For the purposes of this Act, officer means—

  • (a) A Police employee:

  • (b) A member of the armed forces:

  • (c) A customs officer:

  • (d) An inspector of explosives:

  • (e) An enforcement officer:

  • (f) A person appointed under subsection (2).

  (2) The Minister may from time to time, by notice in writing, appoint any person to—

  • (a) Use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, possess, retain, or transfer an authorised anti-personnel mine for the purposes of developing, or training persons in, techniques of mine detection, mine clearance, mine deactivation, or mine destruction:

  • (b) Seize, receive, or acquire an anti-personnel mine for the purposes of deactivating or destroying the mine:

  • (c) Retain an anti-personnel mine pending the deactivation or destruction of the mine:

  • (d) Transfer an anti-personnel mine for the purposes of deactivating or destroying the mine:

  • (e) Deactivate or destroy an anti-personnel mine:

  • (f) Accompany or assist a member of a fact-finding mission.

  Section 4(1)(a): amended, on 1 October 2008, by section 130(1) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).