Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

COURT PROCEDURES ACT 2004 - SECT 44

    (1)     If a security officer believes, on reasonable grounds, that a person entering or on court premises is behaving unlawfully, is behaving in a disorderly or menacing way or is a threat to court security, the security officer may require the person to tell the officer—

        (a)     the person's name; and

        (b)     the person's reason for entering or being on the premises.

    (2)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to tell a security officer the person's name, or the person's reason for entering or being on the court premises, when required to do so under subsection (1).

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

    (3)     A person must not give a name, or other information, that is false or misleading in a material particular in purported compliance with a requirement under subsection (1).

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.