New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY (ASSUMED IDENTITIES) ACT 1998 - SECT 6

6 Role of government and private bodies

(1) When an assumed identity approval has been granted, the chief executive officer of the authorised agency concerned may request a government body or private body to do any of the following:

(a) prepare and provide in respect of the officer to whom the approval applies specified evidence of identity under the assumed identity (being evidence of identity of a kind that is ordinarily provided by the government body or private body),

(b) make an entry in respect of the officer to whom the approval applies under the assumed identity in any register or other record of information kept by the government body or private body (such as that relevant to the issue of a driver licence, credit card or identity card or to the recording of driving or credit history).

(2) A government body is authorised and required to comply with a request made to it under this section. A private body is authorised (but not required) to comply with a request made to it under this section.

(3) For the purpose of complying with a request under this section, the officer in charge of a government body or private body, and any other officer or employee of the government body or private body acting in accordance with the directions of the officer in charge, is authorised to provide evidence of identity and make an entry in a register or other record of information in accordance with the request.

(4) A certificate given or apparently given by the chief executive officer of an authorised agency certifying that a request made to a government body or private body is authorised by this section may be relied on by the officer in charge and any other officer or employee of the government body or private body as evidence of the matters certified.

(5) On being directed by the chief executive officer of an authorised agency to cancel an assumed identity, the officer in charge of a government body or private body, and any other officer or employee of the government body or private body acting in accordance with the directions of the officer in charge, is authorised and required to cancel any evidence of identity or entry in a register or other record of information provided or made in respect of the assumed identity.

(6) This section does not authorise the making or cancellation of an entry in a register of births or marriages except in accordance with an order under section 7.