Failure to remove face covering
19B Failure to remove face covering
A person who is required by a police officer in accordance with section 19A to remove a face covering must not, without special justification, fail or refuse to comply with the requirement.
Maximum penalty—
in the case of a person who is required to remove a face covering following a requirement under section 14 or 19A(1)(c)—50 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment, or both, or
in any other case—2 penalty units.
A person has a special justification for not removing a face covering if (and only if)—
the person has a legitimate medical reason for not removing the face covering, or
the person has any other excuse for not removing the face covering that is an excuse of a kind prescribed by the regulations.
The onus of proof of a special justification lies on the person claiming to have the special justification.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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