New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FINES ACT 1996 - SECT 22

22 Persons who may issue and deal with penalty notices (appropriate officers)

(1) A penalty notice may be issued by a person authorised by the statutory provision providing for the issue of the notice.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the following are "appropriate officers" for a penalty notice:

(a) a person so authorised to issue that kind of penalty notice,

(b) a person employed in the Office of State Revenue in the Treasury and authorised by the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue for the purposes of this Part,

(c) a person, or a member of a specified class of persons, specified in the regulations for that kind of penalty notice or for all penalty notices.