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AGED CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY COMMISSION ACT 2018 - SECT 74

Identity cards for quality assessors

  (1)   The Commissioner must cause an identity card to be issued to a person who is a quality assessor.

Form of identity card

  (2)   The identity card must:

  (a)   be in the form prescribed by the rules; and

  (b)   include a photograph of the person that is no more than 5 years old.

Offence

  (4)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person has been issued with an identity card; and

  (b)   the person ceases to be a quality assessor; and

  (c)   the person does not return the identity card to the Commissioner within 14 days after ceasing to be a quality assessor.

Penalty:   1 penalty unit.

  (5)   An offence against subsection   (4) is an offence of strict liability.

  (6)   Subsection   (4) does not apply if the identity card was lost or destroyed.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection: see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .

Requirement to carry identity card

  (8)   A quality assessor must carry the assessor's identity card at all times when performing functions, or exercising powers, as a quality assessor.



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