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Forestry Act 1959
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### sec.84 Matters may be completed by different officers
If an officer has issued any order or given any direction or notice or made any request or taken any action under this Act, the officer or any other officer who is empowered by this Act to issue, give, or make a like order, direction, notice, or request, or, as the case may be, to take any like action, may at any time (and shall if so directed by the chief executive) withdraw or revoke or from time to time vary the order, direction, notice, request, or action, or take further steps thereon.
Any officer may, without further warrant or authority than this subsection, summarily interfere to prevent any actual or attempted breach of this Act.
Every officer shall be furnished with a certificate of appointment, signed by the chief executive and upon entering any place for the purposes of this Act shall, if required, produce such certificate to the occupier of the place.
Every person performing duties under this Act or other person authorised by the chief executive to enter upon any place for the purposes of this Act shall, if required, produce the person’s authority to the occupier of the place.
In subsections (1) and (3) —
officer includes plantation officer.
s 84 amd 1992 No. 15 s 13 sch ; 2010 No. 12 s 62
(sec.84-ssec.1) If an officer has issued any order or given any direction or notice or made any request or taken any action under this Act, the officer or any other officer who is empowered by this Act to issue, give, or make a like order, direction, notice, or request, or, as the case may be, to take any like action, may at any time (and shall if so directed by the chief executive) withdraw or revoke or from time to time vary the order, direction, notice, request, or action, or take further steps thereon.
(sec.84-ssec.2) Any officer may, without further warrant or authority than this subsection, summarily interfere to prevent any actual or attempted breach of this Act.
(sec.84-ssec.3) Every officer shall be furnished with a certificate of appointment, signed by the chief executive and upon entering any place for the purposes of this Act shall, if required, produce such certificate to the occupier of the place.
(sec.84-ssec.4) Every person performing duties under this Act or other person authorised by the chief executive to enter upon any place for the purposes of this Act shall, if required, produce the person’s authority to the occupier of the place.
(sec.84-ssec.5) In subsections (1) and (3) — officer includes plantation officer.