Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies in relation to a technical inspector appointed under section 81.
(2) The technical regulator must give a technical inspector an identity card stating the person's name and that the person is a technical inspector.
(3) The identity card must show—
(a) a recent photograph of the technical inspector; and
(b) the card's date of issue and expiry; and
(c) anything else prescribed by regulation.
(4) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) stops being a technical inspector; and
(b) does not return the person's identity card to the technical regulator as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day the person stops being a technical inspector.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(5) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(6) Subsection (4) does not apply to a person if the person's identity card has been—
(a) lost or stolen; or
(b) destroyed by someone else.
Note The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (6) (see Criminal Code
, s 58).