(7) A person may be treated for the purposes of this regulation as making a false registration label if the person alters a label, adhesive or other document so as to make it false in any respect, whether or not it was already a false registration label before the alteration or is false in some other respect apart from that alteration.
PART 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Power to demand names and addresses, etc.
49.—(1) An authorised person may require a person whom the authorised person has reasonable grounds to suspect is about to contravene, has contravened or is contravening any provision of these Regulations, to provide the person’s name, address or other proof of identity on demand.
(2) A person who—
- (a) without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1); or
- (b) in providing any information so required under paragraph (1), makes a statement which the person knows to be false, or recklessly makes a statement which is false,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
- (c) for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $20,000; and
- (d) for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 months or to both.
Enforcement of directions
50. A person who fails to comply with any direction given to him or her by any authorised person under any provision of these Regulations is to be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to have contravened that provision.
