Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

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PRIVATE SECURITY ACT - SECT 41

Power to require name and address

41. Power to require name and address

(1) An inspector may require a person to state the person's name and address if the inspector -

(a) finds the person committing an offence against this Act; or

(b) finds the person in circumstances that lead, or has information that leads, the inspector to suspect on reasonable grounds that the person has recently committed an offence against this Act.

(2) When making the requirement, the inspector shall warn the person that it is an offence to fail to state the person's name and address, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

(3) The inspector may require the person to give evidence of the correctness of the person's name or address if the inspector suspects, on reasonable grounds, that the name or address given is false.

(4) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with an inspector's requirement under subsection (1).

Penalty: In the case of a natural person - 20 penalty units.

In the case of a body corporate - 100 penalty units.



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