Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 No 156
Historical version for 1 November 2011 to 5 February 2012 (accessed 22 May 2013 at 15:46)
Current version
189 Identification
(1) Every authorised officer or enforcement officer, who is not a
police officer, is to be provided with an identification card as an authorised
officer or enforcement officer by the regulatory or other authority that
appointed the officer.
(2) In the course of exercising the functions of an authorised officer
or enforcement officer under this Act, the officer must, if requested to do so
by any person affected by the exercise of any such function, produce to the
person the officer’s identification card, issued in accordance with this
section, or, in the case of a police officer, the officer’s police
identification.
(3) It is sufficient compliance with subsection (2) if an enforcement
officer, acting in the capacity of an enforcement officer, who is also an
authorised officer produces his or her identification card as an authorised
officer.