SECURITY AND RELATED ACTIVITIES (CONTROL) ACT 1996 - SECT 61

SECURITY AND RELATED ACTIVITIES (CONTROL) ACT 1996 - SECT 61

61 .         Identity cards

        (1)         A licensing officer may issue an identity card to a person to whom a licence is issued.

        (2)         A licensee to whom an identity card has been issued under subsection (1) must, on request, immediately produce the card for inspection by —

            (a)         a compliance officer or a police officer; or

            (b)         any person for whom the licensee is performing services under the licence,

                and must have the card in his or her possession to enable this subsection to be complied with.

        Penalty: a fine of $200.

        (3)         It is a defence to a charge under subsection (2) for a person to prove that he or she had a reasonable excuse for failing to produce the card or to have it in his or her possession or to do both of those things, as the case may be.

        [Section 61 amended: No. 4 of 2008 s. 43.]