Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN PROTECTIVE SERVICE ACT 1987 No. 7 of 1987 - SECT 20

20. (1) The Director may cause an identity card, in a form approved in writing
by the Director, to be issued to a protective service officer.

(2) A protective service officer who is not in uniform shall not, in the
course of his or her duties as a protective service officer, arrest a person
or exercise any other power in relation to a person unless the protective
service officer produces his or her identity card for the person's inspection
and, if the protective service officer fails to do so, the person is not
obliged to comply with any request made by, or any requirement of, the
protective service officer.

(3) Sub-section (2) does not apply if the person, by his or her own actions,
makes it impracticable for the protective service officer to produce his or
her identity card for the person's inspection.

(4) Where a person in possession of an identity card issued under sub-section
(1) ceases to be a protective service officer, the person shall forthwith
return the identity card to a person occupying such office in the Department
as is designated, in writing, by the Director.
Penalty: $100.

(5) The Director may, in writing, direct that identity cards issued before the
commencement of this Act to persons who are, after that commencement,
protective service officers shall be taken, after that commencement, to have
been issued under sub-section (1).