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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 31

31 .         Issuing and production of certificate of authority for purposes of other written laws

        (1)         In this section —

        certificate requirement , in relation to a written law, means a requirement that persons who are authorised to exercise powers under that written law be issued with an identity card;

        identity card means a certificate or other document evidencing a person’s identity or appointment;

        production requirement , in relation to a written law, means a requirement that a person who exercises, has exercised, or is about to exercise a power under that written law produce an identity card, whether on request or otherwise.

        (2)         This section applies if —

            (a)         a person is designated as an authorised officer for the purposes of one or more provisions of another written law; and

            (b)         that other written law has a certificate requirement.

        (3)         If this section applies —

            (a)         it is sufficient compliance with the certificate requirement in the other written law if the certificate of authority issued to that person under section 30 specifies that the person is designated as an authorised officer for the purposes of that other written law or one or more provisions of that other written law; and

            (b)         it is sufficient compliance with any production requirement in that other written law if —

                  (i)         the production requirement relates to a provision for the purposes of which the designation has effect; and

                  (ii)         the person produces that certificate of authority.



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