219Power to serve a notice

219 Power to serve a notice (1) An authorised officer may serve an infringement notice on any person that he or she has reason to believe has committed a prescribed offence against this Act (including an offence against a provision of the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria)) or the regulations. (2) An offence referred to in subsection (1) for which an infringement notice may be served is an infringement offence within the meaning of the **Infringements Act 2006** and the penalty for that offence is the prescribed infringement penalty in respect of that offence. (3) In this Part ***authorised officer*** means— (a) an inspector; S. 219(3)(b) substituted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 6.6). (b) a police officer; (c) a person authorised in writing by the Director. Part 8.4—Safety and information requirements