(1) The Commissioner shall appoint such officers of the department as he considers necessary to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Every inspector appointed under subsection (1) shall be furnished with a certificate of his appointment, signed by either the Commissioner or an officer of the department authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner, and an inspector shall, if requested to do so, produce that certificate to any person in relation to whom he is about to exercise, or has exercised, any of his powers under this Act.

(3) A certificate purporting to have been furnished under subsection (2) is, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to have signed it or of his authority to have signed it, evidence in any court of the appointment to which the certificate purports to relate.

[Section 42 inserted by No. 43 of 1987 s.13.]