Obstruction of investigators
185 Obstruction of investigators
A person must not obstruct an investigator in the exercise of a power under this Act.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.
A person is taken to obstruct an investigator in the exercise of a power under this Act if the person—
assaults, abuses, hinders, resists or intimidates the investigator or a person assisting the investigator in the exercise of the investigator’s powers under this Act; or
deliberately prevents or attempts to prevent (whether directly or indirectly) a person from—
being questioned by an investigator; or
giving, under this Act, any information or document to an investigator; or
in any other way obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, an investigator in the exercise of the investigator’s powers under this Act.
A licensee is also taken to obstruct an investigator in the exercise of a power under this Act if the licensee, or a person authorised to act on behalf of the licensee, bans the investigator from entering the licensee’s licensed premises.
Subsection (3) does not apply if the licensee proves the ban was imposed because of the investigator’s behaviour as a patron of the licensed premises.
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