New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) There may from time to time be appointed under the State Sector Act 1988—
(a) A Commissioner of Plant Variety Rights:
(b) One or more Assistant Commissioners of Plant Variety Rights, who shall be under the control and direction of the Commissioner.
(2) All persons appointed under subsection (1) of this section shall be officers or employees of the Ministry, and any such appointment under that subsection may be held either separately or in conjunction with any other office in the Ministry.
(3) The Secretary may from time to time designate any officer or employee of the Ministry an officer of the Office; and any person so designated may hold any other office in the Ministry at the same time.
Compare: 1973 No 37 s 7
The reference to the State Sector Act 1988 in subsection (1) was substituted, as from 1 April 1988, for a reference to the State Services Act 1962 pursuant to section 88(1) State Sector Act 1988 (1988 No 20).
Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 August 1990, by section 2(2) Plant Variety Rights Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 82) by substituting the word “Secretary”
for the word “Director-General”
wherever that word occurred.