5TPower to require driver to stop

5T Power to require driver to stop

S. 5T(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 169.2).

(1) A police officer may require a driver or person in charge of a motor vehicle on a highway to stop the motor vehicle if the police officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person in the vehicle has committed or is about to commit an offence against section 5S.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person must not fail to stop a motor vehicle when required to do so under subsection (1).

1. 10 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) is not contravened if—

(a) the person making the requirement to stop is not in uniform; and

S. 5T(3)(b) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 169.2).

(b) the driver or person in charge of the motor vehicle believed that that person was not a police officer.

S. 5U