Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 48

48 .         Certificate as to authority of wildlife officer etc. to act

        (1)         The CEO shall furnish to a person designated or appointed under section 45 or 46 a certificate under his hand stating —

            (a)         that he has been designated or appointed under that section;

            (b)         in the case of a person appointed under section 46, whether he may exercise his functions in the whole or a part of the State and, if the latter, the part of the State in which he may do so; and

            (c)         the general nature of his duties,

                and the certificate shall, on demand, be produced by the holder to any person who is affected by the performance by the holder of any of his functions under this Act, the Bush Fires Act 1954 or the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 , as the case requires.

        (2)         In any proceedings production of a certificate purporting to be issued under this section shall be sufficient evidence of the matters appearing therein without proof of those matters or of the signature of the CEO.

        (3)         Where a person ceases to be designated or appointed under section 45 or 46, he shall forthwith surrender the certificate to the CEO or other person authorised to receive it.

        Penalty applicable to subsection (3): $500.

        [Section 48 amended by No. 20 of 1991 s. 26; No. 38 of 2002 s. 41(3); No. 28 of 2006 s. 209.]