New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK FOODS ACT 1940 - SECT 28

28 Obstruction of inspectors

(1) A person must not:

(a) prevent, delay, obstruct or hinder an inspector from or in the execution or performance of the inspector’s powers, authorities, duties and functions under this Act, or

(b) fail to comply with a requirement of an inspector under this Part to the extent that the person is capable of complying with it.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or, for an offence by a body corporate, 100 penalty units.

(2) A person is not guilty of an offence under this section in respect of a failure to comply with a requirement of an inspector to state the person’s full name and residential address unless it is established that at the time of making the requirement concerned the inspector informed the person that it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement.