Div 4Community aides

Division 4—Community aides 16—Appointment of community aides (1) The Chief Executive Officer may appoint such persons as he or she thinks fit to act in a voluntary capacity as community aides. (2) Subject to subsection (3), a community aide will be appointed upon such terms and conditions as the Chief Executive Officer thinks fit and specifies in the instrument of appointment. (3) The term of office for which a person may be appointed as a community aide must not exceed one year in respect of his or her first term of office, and two years in respect of subsequent terms of office. (4) Upon the expiration of a term of office, a community aide is eligible for re‑appointment. (5) The Chief Executive Officer may, at any time, by instrument in writing addressed to a person appointed as a community aide under this section, remove the person from the office of community aide. 17—Duties and functions A community aide has the following duties and functions: (a) to act subject to the direction and supervision of an employee of the Department in the establishment and furtherance of programmes designed to promote any aspect of family or community welfare; and (b) any other duties and functions that the Chief Executive Officer may determine to be appropriate to a community aide. 18—Allowances in respect of expenses The Chief Executive Officer may, with the approval of the Minister, pay to a community aide such allowances to reimburse the community aide for expenses incurred or to be incurred in the course of his or her duties as the Chief Executive Officer thinks fit. 19—Training of community aides The Chief Executive Officer will arrange for a community aide to receive such orientation, education, training, support and supervision as the Chief Executive Officer thinks fit. 20—Register (1) The Chief Executive Officer must cause a register of community aides to be kept. (2) The name of any person who has ceased to be a community aide by reason of expiration of a term of office, resignation or removal from office, or any other reason, must be removed from the register.