(1) The Statistician may, by instrument in writing, appoint a specified officer, or officers included in a specified class of officers, to be an authorized officer or authorized officers, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act.
(2) However, the Statistician must not appoint as an authorised officer a person who performs services in accordance with an arrangement made under section 16A of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 .