Offences—failure to provide assistance etc
19 Offences—failure to provide assistance etc
A person in charge of an operating entity for a visitable place must not, without reasonable excuse—
refuse or neglect to render assistance if asked by an official visitor under section 18; or
fail to answer any question if asked by an official visitor in the exercise of the official visitor’s functions.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
A person in charge of an operating entity for a visitable place must not, without reasonable excuse, obstruct or hinder an official visitor in the exercise of the official visitor’s functions.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
A person in charge of an operating entity for a visitable place must keep a record of each visit by an official visitor to the visitable place.
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
In this section:
person in charge, of an operating entity, means—
if the operating entity is the Territory—the relevant director‑general; and
in any other case—the person in charge of the entity.
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