ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 78 Identity cards

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 78

    (1)     This section applies to a person holding any of the following positions:

        (a)     inspector (other than a police officer);

        (b)     authorised officer;

        (c)     the authority;

        (d)     delegate of the authority with any delegated powers of an inspector.

    (2)     The director-general must give the person an identity card stating the person's name and position.

    (3)     The identity card must show—

        (a)     a recent photograph of the person; and

        (b)     the card's date of issue and expiry; and

        (c)     anything else prescribed by regulation.

    (4)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person stops being a person to whom this section applies; and

        (b)     the person does not return the person's identity card to the director-general as soon as practicable, but no later than 7 days after the day the person stops being a person to whom this section applies.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

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