AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40YC AFP appointees to provide name, etc.

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40YC

    An AFP appointee commits an offence if:

  (a)   a person requests the AFP appointee to give the person any of the following:

  (i)   his or her name;

  (ii)   the address of his or her place of duty;

  (iii)   his or her identification number if her or she has an identification number; and

  (b)   the person informs the AFP appointee, either expressly or by necessary implication, that the person:

  (i)   is complaining, or proposes to complain, about action taken by that AFP appointee; or

  (ii)   is giving information, or proposed to give information, under section   40SA about an AFP conduct issue that relates to conduct engaged in by that AFP appointee; and

  (c)   the AFP appointee:

  (i)   refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the request; or

  (ii)   gives the person a name, address or identification number that is false in a material particular.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.