12Identity cards

12 Identity cards

(1) An administrative head of a court must issue an identity card to a person appointed by the administrative head as a security officer or an authorised court officer. Form of identity card (2) The identity card must: (a) contain the information prescribed by the regulations; and (b) contain a recent photograph of the person. Offence (3) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person has been issued with an identity card under subsection (1); and (b) the person ceases to be a security officer or an authorised court officer; and (c) the person does not, as soon as practicable after so ceasing, return the identity card to the administrative head of the court whose administrative head appointed the person as a security officer or an authorised court officer.

Penalty: 1 penalty unit.

(4) An offence against subsection (3) is an offence of strict liability.

Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

Defence—card lost or destroyed (5) Subsection (3) does not apply if the identity card was lost or destroyed.

Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (5): see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.