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Last Updated: 1 August 2021
AN ACT TO PREVENT THE ENTRY OF ANIMAL AND PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES INTO FIJI; TO CONTROL THEIR ESTABLISHMENT AND SPREAD IN FIJI; TO REGULATE THE MOVEMENT OF ANIMAL AND PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES AND OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS AND THEIR PRODUCTS; TO FACILITATE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN RESPECT OF ANIMAL AND PLANT DISEASES; AND FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[BIO 11] Biosecurity officers and other employees11
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(2) At the date of commencement of this Act, the provisions of Part A of Schedule 3 apply to persons employed immediately before that date in the Quarantine and Inspection Division whose services are required by the Authority for the performance of its functions under this Act.
(3) The CEO may exercise disciplinary control over employees of the Authority in accordance with Part B of Schedule 3.
(4) The CEO with the approval of the Board may designate any public officer or employee of a statutory authority to be a biosecurity officer for the purposes of this Act for a particular purpose or at a particular location.
(5)
- (a)The powers of a biosecurity officer are as prescribed by or under this Act.
- (b)A biosecurity officer must perform such duties, not inconsistent with this Act, as are assigned to the officer by the CEO.
- (c)The CEO may limit the functions to be performed by a biosecurity officer to those within the officer’s technical sphere of competence.
- (d)The functions assigned to an officer designated under subsection (4) must be consistent with the designation under that subsection.
(6) The CEO must provide every person designated as a biosecurity officer with a suitable form of identification as such officer.
(7) A person who—
- (a)upon the termination of his or her appointment as a biosecurity officer fails to surrender up any identification issued under subsection (8) within a specified period; or
- (b)copies, forges or alters a form of identification issued under subsection (7) without the written authority of the Authority,
commits an offence.
(8) A person who is to perform duties as a biosecurity officer under this Act must be given adequate training in biosecurity control measures and in the provisions of this Act before embarking on those duties.