(1) The Agency may appoint in writing such and so many persons, including members of the staff of the Agency, to be authorised officers for the purposes of all or any of the relevant statutory provisions and such appointment may be specified to be for a fixed period.
(2) An authorised officer under section 16 of the Consumer Information Act 1978 holding office immediately before the commencement of section 37 shall continue in office as if appointed under subsection (1).
(3) Every authorised officer appointed under this section shall be furnished with a warrant of appointment and shall, when exercising any power conferred on him or her by this section, if requested by a person affected, produce the warrant of appointment or copy of it to that person.
(4) An appointment under this section as an authorised officer shall cease -
(a) if the Agency revokes the appointment,
(b) if the appointment is for a fixed period, on the expiry of that period, or
(c) if the person appointed ceases