43Requirement to state name and address

43 Requirement to state name and address

43 Requirement to state name and address

(1) An authorised person who suspects on reasonable grounds that a person on the Trust lands has committed an offence against the Act or this Regulation may require the person to state the person’s full name and residential address.

(2) A person must not—

(a) fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement under this clause, or

(b) in purported compliance with the requirement, give information that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this clause unless it is established that the authorised person—

(a) identified themselves as an authorised person, and

(b) warned the person that failure to comply with the requirement or giving false information is an offence.