Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DANGEROUS GOODS (ROAD TRANSPORT) ACT 2009 (NO. 34 OF 2009) - SECT 24

    (1)     The appointing competent authority must give an authorised person (other than a police officer) an identity card stating the authorised person's name and that the person is an authorised person.

    (2)     The identity card must show—

        (a)     a recent photograph of the authorised person; and

        (b)     the card's date of issue and expiry; and

        (c)     anything else prescribed by regulation.

    (3)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person stops being an authorised person; and

        (b)     the person does not return the person's identity card to the appointing competent authority as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day the person stops being an authorised person.

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

        (b)     destroyed by someone other than the person.

Note     The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (4) (see Criminal Code, s 58).

    (5)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.