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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners - Inspectors

164: Identity cards

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“Inspectors must carry and show identification cards”

The regulator must give you an identity card if you’re an inspector. This card will show your name and say that you’re an inspector. It might also have other information that the rules say it needs to have.

When you’re doing your job as an inspector, you need to show this card if someone asks to see it. This helps people know who you are and that you’re allowed to do inspector things.

If you stop being an inspector, you have to give your card back to the regulator as soon as you can. This is important because you shouldn’t keep the card if you’re not an inspector anymore.

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Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners: Inspectors

164Identity cards

  1. The regulator must give each inspector an identity card that—

  2. states the person's name and appointment as an inspector; and
    1. includes any other matter prescribed by regulations.

      1. An inspector must, when exercising compliance powers under this Act, produce his or her identity card for inspection on request.

      2. A person who ceases to be an inspector must as soon as practicable return the identity card to the regulator.

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