Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) CASA must issue an identity card to an authorised person:
(a) appointed under regulation 6 for the purposes of any 1 or more of the following provisions:
(i) subregulation 30 (4);
(ii) subregulation 33 (2);
(iii) regulation 43A;
(iv) regulation 50D;
(v) regulation 53;
(viii) regulation 227;
(ix) regulation 290;
(x) regulation 302;
(xi) regulation 310B; or
(b) acting under regulation 305.
(2) An identity card must:
(a) bear a recent photograph of the person; and
(b) identify whichever of the provisions referred to in subregulation (1) is relevant; and
(c) be in a form approved, in writing, by CASA.
(3) If a person issued with an identity card stops being an authorised person for the purposes of all or any provision identified in it, the person must return the card to CASA within 7 days of the person stopping being an authorised person.
Penalty: 1 penalty unit.
(3A) An offence against subregulation (3) is an offence of strict liability.
Note For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(3B) It is a defence to a prosecution under subregulation (3) if the defendant returned the identity card to CASA as soon as practicable.
Note A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subregulation (3B) (see subsection 13.3 (3) of the Criminal Code ).
(4) If a person returns an identity card because he or she has stopped being an authorised person for the purposes of only some of the provisions identified in it, CASA must, as soon as practicable, issue to the person a new identity card under subregulation (1) identifying the provisions for the purposes of which the person is still appointed as an authorised person.