CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 23 Identity cards

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 23

    (1)     This section applies in relation to a person appointed under any of the following:

        (a)     section 19 (Corrections officers—appointment);

        (b)     section 21 (Doctors—health service appointments);

        (c)     section 22 (Health practitioners—non-therapeutic functions).

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

    (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 the person—

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

        (b)     does not return the person's identity card to the director-general no later than 7 days after the day the person stops being a corrections officer.

Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit.

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