7Identification certificates

7 Identification certificates

7 Identification certificates

(1) Upon appointing a person as an authorised officer, the Environment Protection Authority shall issue to the person an identification certificate.

(2) A person appointed as an authorised officer under section 6 (1) shall, upon ceasing to be an authorised officer, surrender the person’s identification certificate to the Environment Protection Authority.

Maximum penalty—1 penalty unit.

(3) An identification certificate referred to in subsection (1) shall be in or to the effect of the prescribed form.

(4) Such a certificate may, at the time it is issued and from time to time thereafter, be endorsed with provisions enlarging the area within which, but for those provisions, the authority of its holder would be confined by section 9.

s 7: Am 1988 No 15, Sch 1 (3); 1992 No 112, Sch 1.