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).