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ROAD SAFETY (ALCOHOL AND DRUGS) ACT 1970 - SECT 15

Division 3 - Supplementary provisions 15. Identification of offenders

      (1) A police officer may require a person to whom a request has been made, or a direction has been given, under Division 2 or whom that officer has reasonable grounds for believing has committed an offence under this Act to state his name and the address of his place of abode.

      (2) A person who –

(a) refuses or fails to comply with a requirement made by a police officer under this section; or

(b) in response to any such requirement, furnishes that officer with information that is false –

is guilty of an offence.

      (3) A police officer may arrest without warrant a person who, in response to the requirement of the police officer made under subsection (1) –

(a) refuses or fails to state his or her name or the address of his or her place of abode; or

(b) states a name or an address of a place of abode that the police officer reasonably believes to be false.


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