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PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 24ZQ

Requirement to give information to inspector during entry

    (1)     To the extent that is reasonably necessary to determine whether an offence against this Act or regulations under this Act has been or is about to be committed, a POCTA inspector exercising a power of entry under this Part who produces his or her identity card for inspection by the occupier of the premises or an agent or employee of the occupier—

        (a)     may require that person to give information to the inspector, orally or in writing;

        (b)     if the power is being exercised under a warrant, may require that person to produce anything named or referred to in the warrant;

        (c)     if the power is being exercised under section 23(1), may, on production of his or her identity card for inspection to any person in or on the premises, require the person to give such information as the inspector requests in relation to the suspected baiting, trap-shooting or luring and to answer any questions put to that person by the inspector in relation to the suspected baiting, trap-shooting or luring.

    (2)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a requirement of an inspector under subsection (1).

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (3)     A person must not, when giving information to a inspector under subsection (1) give information that is false or misleading.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

S. 24ZQA inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 26.



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