South Australian Current Acts

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 17

17—Authorised officers

        (1)         The State Co-ordinator may appoint, individually or by class, such persons to be authorised officers for the purposes of this Act as the State Co-ordinator thinks fit.

        (1a)         An appointment under subsection (1) may be subject to conditions specified by the State Co-ordinator.

        (2)         An authorised officer, other than a police officer, must, as soon as practicable, be issued with an identity card in a form approved by the State Co-ordinator—

            (a)         containing the person's name and a photograph of the person; and

            (b)         stating that the person is an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act.

        (3)         An authorised officer must, at the request of a person in relation to whom the authorised officer intends to exercise any powers under this Act, produce for the inspection of the person—

            (a)         in the case of an authorised officer who is a police officer and is not in uniform—his or her certificate of authority; or

            (b)         in the case of an authorised officer who is not a police officer—his or her identity card, if one has been issued in accordance with subsection (2) or, if such an identity card has not yet been issued, with such other proof of the person's appointment as an authorised officer as the State Co-ordinator may determine.

        (4)         An authorised officer must, on ceasing to be an authorised officer for any reason, surrender his or her identity card and any insignia or special apparel or equipment issued to the authorised officer for the purposes of this Act to the State Co-ordinator or a person nominated by the State Co-ordinator.

Maximum penalty: $1 250.