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Rice Marketing Act 1983
139Demanding name and place of abode
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#### 139 Demanding name and place of abode
139 Demanding name and place of abode
> > (1) An authorised person who finds a person committing an offence against this Act or the regulations or who finds a person whom, on reasonable grounds, the authorised person suspects of having committed or attempted to commit any such offence, may demand from that person his or her name and place of abode.
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> > (2) A person who upon demand made under subsection (1)—
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> > > (a) fails or refuses to state his or her name or place of abode, or
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> > > (b) states a name that is not his or her name or a place of abode that is not his or her place of abode,
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> > is guilty of an offence against this Act.