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Name and address of person found on shop premises to be given to certain officers
Cap. 287, s. 25 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The Labour Commissioner or any labour inspector or any police officer may demand the name and address of any person found in any shop during the period during which it is required to be closed, and, if he has reasonable ground to suppose that the name or address given is false, may require evidence of the correctness of such name and address, and if such person fails upon such demand to give his name or address, or evidence of the correctness of the name or address so given, a member of the Belize Police Department may apprehend him without warrant, and carry him as soon as practicable before a magistrate.
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(2) Any person required by the Labour Commissioner or any labour inspector or any police officer under this section to give his name and address, who fails to give the same, or gives a false name or address, or gives false evidence with respect to such name or address, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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Amended by: 42 of 1999
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