Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) ACT 1971 - SECT 13C

  (1)   Subject to any limitations and restrictions provided by the regulations, if an authorised officer for an investigatory authority believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary in the interests of security to do so, the officer may require a person who is on the authority premises to tell the officer:

  (a)   the person's name; and

  (b)   the address of the person's place of residence; and

  (c)   the person's reason for being on the premises; and

  (d)   evidence of the person's identity.

  (2)   A person of whom such a requirement is made must not:

  (a)   refuse or fail to comply with the requirement; or

  (b)   give false information, or false evidence of identity, in response to the requirement.

Penalty:   20 penalty units.

  (3)   Subsection   ( 2) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   ( 3) (see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).