Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 399B

  (1)   The powers of an authorised officer in relation to:

  (a)   an offence against an environmental law that is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 or regulations made under that Act; or

  (b)   an environmental penalty provision that is a civil penalty provision of that Act; or

  (c)   a thing that may be done for the purposes of that Act;

may only be exercised by an authorised officer who is an inspector by force of paragraph   397(1)(a) or (b).

  (2)   To avoid doubt, an authorised officer who is an inspector by force of paragraph   397(1)(a) or (b) and also by force of paragraph   397(1)(c) is an authorised officer who may exercise the powers referred to in subsection   (1).