25CIdentity cards to be shown

25C Identity cards to be shown

25C Identity cards to be shown

(1) An authorised officer must—

(a) carry the officer’s identity card at all times when exercising a power under this Act to enter premises or a power that may be exercised after entering premises, and

(b) produce the identity card if requested to do so by a person in relation to whom the authorised officer is exercising, or about to exercise, the power.

(2) A person appointed as an investigator under section 18 of the Fair Trading Act 1987 complies with this section if the person carries and produces the investigator’s certificate of identification issued under that Act.

(3) This section does not apply to a power conferred by a search warrant or to a power exercised by an authorised officer who is a police officer authorised under section 25A (2).

ss 25A–25H: Ins 2018 No 64, Sch 1[26].