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PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 36Q

Requirement to give information to authorised officer during entry

    (1)     To the extent that is reasonably necessary to determine whether Part 3 or regulations made under Part 3 have been, are being or are about to be contravened, an authorised officer exercising a power of entry of premises under this Part, who produces the authorised officer's identification certificate for inspection by a person at the premises

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

        (b)     if the power is being exercised under a warrant, may require that person to produce any thing that is or is of a kind named or described in the warrant.

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

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

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

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

S. 36R inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 47.



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