Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 42

    (1)     The animal ethics committee must give a person who holds an authorisation an identity certificate stating the person's name and that the person is an authorisation holder.

Note     If a form is approved under s 110A for an identity certificate, the form must be used.

    (2)     The identity certificate must show—

        (a)     a recent photograph of the person; and

        (b)     anything else prescribed by regulation.

    (3)     A person who is an authorisation holder commits an offence if—

        (a)     an authorised officer asks the person to produce the person's identity certificate; and

        (b)     the person does not produce the certificate.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

    (4)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person stops being an authorisation holder; and

        (b)     the person does not return the person's identity certificate to the animal ethics committee as soon as practicable, but not later than 7 days after the day the person stops being an authorisation holder.

Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit.

    (5)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

    (6)     For this section, if a person holds more than 1 authorisation, the person stops being an authorisation holder only if each authorisation that the person holds is suspended or cancelled, or has been surrendered, under this Act.