22Direction to produce documents

22 Direction to produce documents

(1) An authorised officer may, for compliance purposes, direct the driver of a vehicle to which this Division applies to produce to the authorised officer: (a) the driver’s driver licence; and (b) any licence the driver is required to have by the {subordinate law}; and (c) any transport documentation that is required to be carried on the vehicle by the {subordinate law}. (2) A person who is given a direction under subsection (1) must comply with the direction.

Offence provision.

(3) The authorised officer may seize a licence produced to the officer in response to the direction if the officer reasonably believes that: (a) the licence has been cancelled or suspended; or (b) the licence has otherwise ceased to have effect; or (c) the licence has been varied and the variation is not recorded on the licence; or (d) the person who produced the licence is not the licensee. (4) An authorised officer to whom a document that appears to be a licence is produced in response to the direction may seize the document if the officer reasonably believes that the document is not a licence. {(5) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.}