Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act, 1998

Authorised officers.

49.—(1) The Board or the chief executive may appoint in writing persons to be authorised officers for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Board or the chief executive may appoint in writing any person to be an authorised officer for a fixed period for the purposes of all or any of the provisions of this Act.

(3) An official agency, where it has entered into a service contract with the Board, shall appoint persons to be authorised officers for the purpose of that contract and shall, as soon as may be, inform the Authority of any such appointment and such persons shall have all the powers available to authorised officers under this Act while in performance of a service contract.

(4) Every authorised officer appointed under this section shall be furnished by the Authority or the official agency, as the case may be, with a warrant of his or her appointment as an authorised officer and when exercising any power conferred on him or her by this section as an authorised officer shall, if requested by a person affected, produce the warrant or a copy thereof to that person.

(5) An appointment under this section as an authorised officer shall cease—

(a) in the case of an appointment made by the Board or the chief executive, where the Board or the chief executive, as the case may be, revokes the appointment,

(b) in the case of an appointment made by an official agency, where the relevant service contract is determined,

(c) where it is for a fixed period, upon the expiry of that period, or

(d) where the person appointed is an officer of an official agency or of the Authority, upon his or her ceasing to be such an officer.