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Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999
253NFailure to comply with search
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#### 253N Failure to comply with search
253N Failure to comply with search
> A person must not, without reasonable excuse—
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> > (a) fail or refuse to comply with a request made, or a direction given, by a correctional officer under this Part, or
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> > (b) fail or refuse to produce anything detected or seen on or with the person, or in a vehicle in which the person was present at the time the thing was detected or seen, in a search when requested to do so by a correctional officer, or
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> > (c) resist or impede a search of a person or vehicle under this Part.
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> Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
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> **ss 253N–253P:** Ins 2016 No 47, Sch 1 \[14\].