201Direction to state name and address

201 Direction to state name and address

S. 201(1) amended by No. 93/2009 s. 34.

(1) An inspector may, for the purpose of determining compliance with this Act, regulations made under this Act or a service standard, direct an individual whom the inspector believes on reasonable grounds is, or may be, the holder of an accreditation, a licence or a tow truck trainee permit under this Act, to state his or her name and business address.

(2) A person must comply immediately with a direction under subsection (1).

(3) A person must not, in purported compliance with a direction, knowingly provide a false name or address.

(4) In any proceedings against a person for an offence of failing to state the person's business address, it is a defence if the person charged establishes that the person did not have a business address or that the person's business address was not connected (directly or indirectly) with the provision of accident towing services.

(5) This section does not affect any other law that requires a person to state the person's name or address.