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Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Act 1994
sec.129Power to require production of certain documents
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### sec.129 Power to require production of certain documents
An authorised person may require a person who holds, or claims to hold, an accreditation, authorisation, licence or contract under this Act to produce either or both of the following—
the accreditation, authorisation, licence or contract;
photographic identification issued in official form in or outside Australia.
An authorised person may require a person to produce for inspection a document issued, or required to be kept, under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 , chapter 14 or a law of another State or the Commonwealth about transporting dangerous goods by rail.
The person must comply with the requirement under subsection (1) or (2) , unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.
The authorised person may keep the document to copy it.
If the authorised person copies it, the authorised person may ask the person responsible for keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document.
The authorised person must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after copying it.
s 129 amd 2000 No. 6 s 67 ; 2001 No. 79 s 84 ; 1994 No. 8 s 491 (3) sch 5 (amd 2003 No. 54 ss 34 , 39 )
(sec.129-ssec.1) An authorised person may require a person who holds, or claims to hold, an accreditation, authorisation, licence or contract under this Act to produce either or both of the following— the accreditation, authorisation, licence or contract; photographic identification issued in official form in or outside Australia.
(sec.129-ssec.2) An authorised person may require a person to produce for inspection a document issued, or required to be kept, under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 , chapter 14 or a law of another State or the Commonwealth about transporting dangerous goods by rail.
(sec.129-ssec.3) The person must comply with the requirement under subsection (1) or (2) , unless the person has a reasonable excuse. Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.
(sec.129-ssec.4) The authorised person may keep the document to copy it.
(sec.129-ssec.5) If the authorised person copies it, the authorised person may ask the person responsible for keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document.
(sec.129-ssec.6) The authorised person must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after copying it.
- (a) the accreditation, authorisation, licence or contract;
- (b) photographic identification issued in official form in or outside Australia.