Nature Conservation Act 2014
29Conservation officers—identity cards
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29 Conservation officers—identity cards (1) The director-general must give a conservation officer an identity card stating the person’s name and that the person is a conservation officer. (2) The identity card must show— (a) a recent photograph of the conservation officer; and (b) the card’s date of issue and expiry; and (c) anything else prescribed by regulation. (3) A person commits an offence if the person— (a) stops being a conservation officer; and (b) does not return the person’s identity card to the director-general as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day the person stops being a conservation officer. Maximum penalty: 1 penalty unit. (4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a person if the person’s identity card has been— (a) lost or stolen; or
Conservation officers Part 2.3 (b) destroyed by someone else. mentioned in s (4) (see Criminal Code, s 58).