New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARINE SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 97

97 Identity cards for authorised officers

(1) The Minister is required to give an identity card to each authorised officer appointed under section 96 (including an investigator appointed under Division 3).

(2) An identity card is to be in a form approved by the Minister.

(3) An authorised officer when exercising the functions of the officer is required to produce his or her identity card if requested to do so by an affected person. This subsection does not apply if the officer gives a direction by radio or other communication device.

(4) A person who has been issued with an identity card must return it to the Minister on demand.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(5) Until an authorised officer is given an identity card, the officer’s instrument of appointment is taken to be an identity card for the purposes of subsection (3).