Public Health Act 2016

For the purposes of the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People) Act 2002 —

the office of emergency officer is prescribed for the purposes of section 5 of that Act; and

a holder of that office may exercise the powers in Part 3 of that Act in relation to an offence or suspected offence under this Act during a public health state of emergency.

Without limiting subsection (1), an emergency officer may, where reasonably required for emergency management purposes, require a person to give the emergency officer any or all of the person’s personal details.

If an emergency officer reasonably suspects that a personal detail given by a person in response to a requirement under subsection (2) is false, the emergency officer may require the person to produce evidence of the correctness of the detail.