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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986
36QRequirement to give information to authorised officer during entry
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36Q Requirement to give information to authorised officer during entry
(1) To the extent that is reasonably necessary to determine whether Part 3 or regulations made under Part 3 have been, are being or are about to be contravened, an authorised officer exercising a power of entry of premises under this Part, who produces the authorised officer's identification certificate for inspection by a person at the premises—
(a) may require that person to give information to the authorised officer, orally or in writing; and
(b) if the power is being exercised under a warrant, may require that person to produce any thing that is or is of a kind named or described in the warrant.
(2) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a requirement of an authorised officer under subsection (1).
(3) A person must not, when giving information to an authorised officer under subsection (1), give information that is false or misleading.
S. 36R inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 47.