Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 2014 - SECT 29

    (1)     The director-general must give a conservation officer an identity card stating the person's name and that the person is a conservation officer.

    (2)     The identity card must show—

        (a)     a recent photograph of the conservation officer; and

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

        (c)     anything else prescribed by regulation.

    (3)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     stops being a conservation officer; and

        (b)     does not return the person's identity card to the director-general as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day the person stops being a conservation officer.

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 else.

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

, s 58).