Power to request personal details
56 Power to request personal details
An authorised officer may request a person who is in a major event area and whom the authorised officer reasonably suspects to have just committed or to be committing an offence —
to give the authorised officer the person’s personal details; and
to provide evidence of those personal details if —
the officer reasonably suspects that a personal detail given by the person is false; and
it is reasonable to expect the person to be in possession of that evidence in the circumstances.
An authorised officer may give a direction to leave to a person who does not comply with a request under subsection (1).
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