New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) ACT 2005 - SECT 171

171 Authorised officer may require production of driver licence and name and address from driver or rider

(cf former Act, s 19)

(1) An authorised officer may, in the execution of his or her functions under the road transport legislation, require the driver or rider of a vehicle or horse to do any or all of the following:

(a) produce his or her driver licence (in the case of the driver of a motor vehicle),

(b) state his or her name,

(c) state his or her home address.

(2) A person must not:

(a) refuse to comply with a requirement of an authorised officer under subsection (1), or

(b) state a false name or home address.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3) In subsection (1), a reference to a driver of a vehicle (in the case of a motor vehicle) includes, where the driver is the holder of a learner licence and the motor vehicle is not a motor cycle, a reference to a holder of a driver licence occupying the seat in or on the motor vehicle next to the driver.