Minors required to provide information
53 Minors required to provide information
An authorised person may require a person who is reasonably suspected of being under the age of 18 years and who, if under the age of 18 years, would be committing an offence under this Act—
to state his or her full name and residential address, and
to produce then, or at a police station within a reasonable time, an evidence of age document (within the meaning of the Liquor Act 2007) that might be reasonably accepted as applying to the person and as evidence of his or her age.
A person the subject of a requirement under subsection (1) must not—
refuse or fail to state his or her full name and residential address, or
without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to produce evidence of age as referred to in subsection (1) (b).
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
In this section—
authorised person means—
a hotelier or an employee of a hotelier, or
the secretary of a club or an employee of a club, or
a police officer.
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