Passenger Transport Act 2014
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147 Identity cards
147 Identity cards
(1) This section applies to a transport safety investigator who is exercising, or about to exercise, a function under this Act.
(2) A transport safety investigator must—
(a) carry his or her identity card at all times when exercising a power under this Act to enter premises or a power that is exercisable after entering premises, and
(b) produce his or her identity card if requested to do so by a person in relation to whom the investigator is exercising, or about to exercise, the power.
(3) A person who has ceased to be a transport safety investigator must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to return to the Chief Investigator, within the period specified by the Chief Investigator in a request for the return of the card, any identity card issued to the person by the Chief Investigator.
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply to a power conferred by a search warrant.
Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.