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(1) The Secretary may from time to time appoint advisory or technical committees of one or more persons as the Secretary thinks fit to advise or assist the Commissioner for such purposes and during such periods as the Secretary thinks desirable.
(2) A person may be appointed to be a member of any committee appointed under this section whether or not that person is an officer or employee of the Ministry or otherwise holds an appointment under the State Sector Act 1988.
(3) Any person appointed under subsection (1) of this section who has an interest directly or indirectly connected with any application or matter to be considered by the committee of which that person is a member shall, as soon as is possible after the relevant facts have come to that person's knowledge, disclose the nature of that interest to the Commissioner and, except as otherwise allowed by the Commissioner, shall not take part after the disclosure in any deliberation or decision relating to that application or matter.
(4) The Secretary may appoint, or may authorise the Commissioner to appoint, persons who are not officers or employees of the Ministry as technical advisors to assist the Commissioner in carrying out any tests or trials that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of this Act or in assessing the results of any tests or trials (whether carried out by the Commissioner or not) that the Commissioner considers relevant to those purposes.
(5) The Secretary may, from money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, pay to the member or members of any committee, or to any technical advisor, appointed under this section such fees, salary, allowances, and expenses as the Minister from time to time approves.
Compare: 1973 No 37 s 8
Subsection (1), (4), and (5) were 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.
The reference to the State Sector Act 1988 in subsection (2) 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).