73Requirement to state name and address or produce driver licence

73 Requirement to state name and address or produce driver licence

73 Requirement to state name and address or produce driver licence

(1) An authorised officer may require a person whom the authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds to be offending against this Act or the regulations to state the person’s full name and residential address.

(2) An authorised officer may require the driver of a motor vehicle in a declared catchment area to produce his or her driver licence and to state his or her full name and residential address.

(3) An authorised officer may request a person who is required under this section to state his or her full name and residential address to provide proof of the name and address. It is not an offence against this section to fail to comply with any such request.

(4) A person must not—

(a) fail or refuse to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) or (2), or

(b) in purported compliance with such a requirement, state a name that is not the person’s name or an address that is not the person’s residential address or produce the driver licence of another person.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.