New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

SYDNEY HARBOUR FORESHORE AUTHORITY REGULATION 2006 - REG 22

22 Requirement to state name and address

(1) A ranger or police officer who suspects on reasonable grounds that a person in a public area has committed an offence against this Regulation may require the person to state his or her full name and residential address.

(2) A person must not:

(a) fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement under this clause, or

(b) in purported compliance with such a requirement, furnish information that the person knows to be false or misleading.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this clause unless it is established that the ranger or police officer warned the person that the failure to comply with the requirement is an offence.