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SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 58A

58A—Objectionable persons in public passenger vehicles

        (1)         The driver or conductor of a public passenger vehicle or a police officer may request a person to leave the vehicle if—

            (a)         before, or at the time when, the person entered the vehicle he or she was informed by the driver or conductor that it was fully loaded with passengers; or

            (b)         the person, being under the influence of intoxicating liquor, is causing, or is likely to cause, annoyance to any passenger in the vehicle; or

            (c)         the person's attire or person soils or damages, or is likely to soil or damage, any part of the vehicle or the attire or belongings of any such passenger; or

            (d)         the person acts in a noisy, violent or abusive manner, or uses obscene or indecent language, or consumes intoxicating liquor, in the vehicle, after having been requested to cease doing so.

        (2)         A person who, upon being requested to depart from the vehicle, fails to comply with the request forthwith, is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $750.

        (3)         A person who, upon being so requested, fails to comply with the request may be removed from the vehicle by the driver, conductor or police officer and any person or persons whom the driver, conductor or officer may call to assist.

        (4)         The driver, conductor or police officer may require a person who fails to comply with the request to state his or her correct full name and correct address and a person who fails to comply with that requirement forthwith is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $750.

        (5)         If the driver, conductor or police officer has reasonable cause to suspect that the name or address stated by the person is incorrect or false in any particular, the person must, if required to do so by the driver, conductor or officer, produce evidence of the correctness of the name or address so stated.

Maximum penalty: $750.

        (6)         Any such person who produces false evidence with respect to his or her name or address is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $750.



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