Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

TOBACCO ACT 1927 - SECT 34

    (1)     The chief executive must give an authorised officer (other than a public health officer or police officer) an identity card stating the person's name and position.

    (2)     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.

    (3)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     stops being an authorised officer; and

        (b)     does not return the person's identity card to the chief executive not later than 7 days after the day the person stops being an authorised officer.

Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit.

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