24Warning to be given

24 Warning to be given

(1) Before requiring a person to answer a question or provide information or a document under this Part, a transport safety officer must—

(a) identify himself or herself to the person as a transport safety officer by producing the officer's identity card or in some other way; and

(b) warn the person that failure to comply with the requirement or to answer the question, without reasonable excuse, would constitute an offence; and

(c) warn the person about the effect of section 23; and

(d) advise the person about the effect of section 127.

(2) It is not an offence for a natural person to refuse to answer a question put by a transport safety officer or provide information or a document to a transport safety officer under this Part on the ground that the question, information or document might tend to incriminate him or her, unless he or she was first given the warning in subsection (1)(c).

(3) Nothing in this section prevents a transport safety officer from obtaining and using evidence given to the officer voluntarily by any person.