9Special protective service officers

##### 9 Special protective service officers (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Director may, by instrument signed by him or her, appoint as a special protective service officer a person who is appointed or engaged under the Public Service Act 1999. (2) The Director shall not appoint a person as a special protective service officer unless the Director has previously obtained the written consent of the person’s Agency Head within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999. (3) A special protective service officer has all the powers and duties of a protective service officer except in so far as any of those powers or duties are excluded or limited in the instrument of his or her appointment, and any such exclusion or limitation may be expressed either generally or in relation to persons, places or things.