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TOBACCO ACT 1987 - SECT 5T

Power to require driver to stop

S. 5T(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 169.2).

    (1)     A police officer may require a driver or person in charge of a motor vehicle on a highway to stop the motor vehicle if the police officer believes on reasonable grounds that a person in the vehicle has committed or is about to commit an offence against section 5S.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (3), a person must not fail to stop a motor vehicle when required to do so under subsection (1).

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (3)     Subsection (2) is not contravened if—

        (a)     the person making the requirement to stop is not in uniform; and

S. 5T(3)(b) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 169.2).

        (b)     the driver or person in charge of the motor vehicle believed that that person was not a police officer.

S. 5U
inserted by No. 49/2009 s. 19.



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