South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts36—Provision of personal details
(1) If a police
officer has reasonable cause to suspect that a personal detail as stated in
response to a requirement under this Act is false, the officer may require the
person making the statement to produce evidence of the correctness of the
personal detail as stated.
(2) A person
who—
(a)
refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with—
(i)
a requirement under this Act to state his or her personal
details; or
(ii)
a requirement under subsection (1); or
(b) in
response to such a requirement—
(i)
states a personal detail that is false; or
(ii)
produces false evidence of a personal detail,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
(3) A police officer
who has required a person to state all or any of the person's personal details
under this Act is required to comply with a request to identify himself or
herself, by—
(a)
producing his or her police identification; or
(b)
stating orally or in writing his or her surname, rank and identification
number.