Motor Accident Injuries Act 2019

The MAI commission must give each authorised person an identity card that states the person’s name and that the person is an authorised person.

The identity card must show—

a recent photograph of the authorised person; and

the date of issue of the card; and

the date of expiry of the card; and

anything else prescribed by regulation.

A person commits an offence if the person—

stops being an authorised person; and

does not return the person’s identity card to the MAI commission as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day the person stops being an authorised person.

Penalties imposed under this Act must be paid into the nominal defendant fund (see s 330).

Subsection (3) does not apply to a person if the person’s identity card has been—

lost or stolen; or

destroyed by someone else.

The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (4) (see Criminal Code, s 58).

An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.