(1) For the purposes
of the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People) Act 2002 —
(a) the
office of emergency officer is prescribed for the purposes of section 5 of
that Act; and
(b) a
holder of that office may exercise the powers in Part 3 of that Act in
relation to an offence or suspected offence under this Act during a public
health state of emergency.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), an emergency officer may, where reasonably required for
emergency management purposes, require a person to give the emergency officer
any or all of the person’s personal details.
(3) If an emergency
officer reasonably suspects that a personal detail given by a person in
response to a requirement under subsection (2) is false, the emergency officer
may require the person to produce evidence of the correctness of the detail.