LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 160
LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 160
160 . Information about offences, power to obtain
(1) Where any person
is found on, or is seen leaving, any licensed premises at a time other than
during permitted hours, or an authorised officer has reasonable cause to
suspect that any person is committing or is attempting to commit any offence
against this Act, the authorised officer may require particulars of —
(a) the
name and address of that person or of any witness to an offence, or a
suspected offence, against this Act; and
(b) the
age of that person, where that person’s age is or may be material to the
suspected offence.
(2) If the authorised
officer has reasonable ground to suppose that any particulars supplied are
false, the authorised officer may require the person to supply satisfactory
evidence of those particulars.
(3) If any person,
without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to supply any particulars or
evidence when required to do so by any authorised officer under this section,
and persists in the refusal or failure, that person may be arrested, without
warrant, by any police officer.
(4) A person who,
having been required by any authorised officer to supply any particulars or
evidence under this section, without reasonable excuse —
(a)
refuses or fails to supply the particulars or evidence; or
(b)
supplies any particulars or evidence knowing that the particulars or evidence
are false or misleading in any material respect,
commits an offence.
Penalty: a fine of $5 000.
[Section 160 amended: No. 12 of 1998 s. 88; No. 73
of 2006 s. 110; No. 56 of 2010 s. 69; No. 35 of 2015 s. 25; No. 25 of 2023
s. 21(1).]