EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 17
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 17
(1) The State
Co-ordinator may appoint, individually or by class, such persons to be
authorised officers for the purposes of this Act as the State Co-ordinator
thinks fit.
(1a) An appointment
under subsection (1) may be subject to conditions specified by the State
Co-ordinator.
(2) An authorised
officer, other than a police officer, must, as soon as practicable, be issued
with an identity card in a form approved by the State Co-ordinator—
(a)
containing the person's name and a photograph of the person; and
(b)
stating that the person is an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act.
(3) An authorised
officer must, at the request of a person in relation to whom the authorised
officer intends to exercise any powers under this Act, produce for the
inspection of the person—
(a) in
the case of an authorised officer who is a police officer and is not in
uniform—his or her certificate of authority; or
(b) in
the case of an authorised officer who is not a police officer—his or her
identity card, if one has been issued in accordance with subsection (2)
or, if such an identity card has not yet been issued, with such other proof of
the person's appointment as an authorised officer as the State Co-ordinator
may determine.
(4) An authorised
officer must, on ceasing to be an authorised officer for any reason, surrender
his or her identity card and any insignia or special apparel or equipment
issued to the authorised officer for the purposes of this Act to the State
Co-ordinator or a person nominated by the State Co-ordinator.
Maximum penalty: $1 250.