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UTILITIES (TECHNICAL REGULATION) ACT 2014 - SECT 82

Identity cards

    (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).



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