National Transport Commission (Model Legislation—Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road or Rail) Regulations 2007
45Direction to give name and other personal details
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45 Direction to give name and other personal details
(1) If an authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds that an individual person: (a) has committed or is committing or is about to commit an offence; or (b) may be able to assist in the investigation of an offence; the officer may direct the person to give the officer then and there any or all of the person’s personal details. (2) If an authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a personal detail given by a person in response to a direction is false or misleading, the officer may direct the person to produce evidence then and there of the correctness of the detail. (3) A person who is given a direction under subsection (1) or (2) must comply with the direction.
Offence provision.
(4) A person who is given a direction under subsection (1) must not give, in purported response to the direction, any details that are false or misleading in a material particular.
Offence provision.
(5) A person who is given a direction under subsection (2) must not produce, in purported response to the direction, any evidence that is false or misleading in a material particular.
Offence provision.
(6) In this section:
personal details, in relation to a person, means:
(a) the person’s full name; and
(b) the person’s date of birth; and
(c) the address of where the person is living; and
(d) the address of where the person usually lives; and
(e) the person’s business address.
{(7) An offence against subsection (5) is an offence of strict liability.}