27Requirement to state name and address

27 Requirement to state name and address

27 Requirement to state name and address

(1) An authorised officer who reasonably suspects a person of having committed an offence against this Act or the regulations may require the person to state the person’s full name and residential address.

(2) An authorised officer may require the driver of a vehicle on the trust lands to produce the driver’s driver licence and to state the person’s full name and residential address.

(3) A person must not—

(a) fail to comply with a requirement under this section, or

(b) in purported compliance with such a requirement, state a name that is not the person’s name or an address that is not the person’s residential address.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(4) A person is not guilty of an offence under this section unless it is established that the authorised officer warned the person that a failure to comply is an offence.