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Road Safety Act 1986
135Direction to state name and address
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135 Direction to state name and address
(1) An inspector may, for compliance purposes, direct an individual whom the inspector believes on reasonable grounds is, or may be, a responsible person to state his or her name, home address and business address.
(2) A person must comply immediately with a direction.
(3) A person must not, in purported compliance with a direction, knowingly provide a false name or address.
(4) In proceedings against a person for an offence of failing to state the person's business address, it is a defence if the person charged establishes that the person did not have a business address or that the person's business address was not connected (directly or indirectly) with road transport involving heavy vehicles.
(5) This section does not affect any other law that requires a person to state the person's name or address.
S. 136 inserted by No. 44/2003 s. 3.