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24 :(a) refuses or fails to comply with a request under this section; or
 * (b) in response to the request, gives a name that is false in a material particular, or gives an address other than the individual’s full and correct residential address.

(5) An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (4) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

Power to impose cordon

18.—(1) A police officer may, pursuant to a special authorisation, place a cordon around the target area of the special authorisation or any part of it, for the purpose of exercising a special power specified in the special authorisation.

(2) The area around which a cordon is placed (called in this Act a cordoned area) must, so far as is reasonably practicable, be indicated by means of any form of physical barrier as appears to the police officer responsible for carrying out the arrangements for applying the cordon to be appropriate.

(3) An individual who is in a cordoned area must immediately leave the area if ordered to do so by a police officer.

(4) An individual who is on any premises which abut or are wholly or partly within a cordoned area must immediately leave the premises if ordered to do so by a police officer.

(5) The driver, or the other individual or other person in charge of a vehicle or vessel which is in a cordoned area must immediately move the vehicle or vessel away from the area if ordered to do so by a police officer.

(6) An individual, or the driver or other person in charge of a vehicle or vessel, outside a cordoned area must not enter the cordoned area, and must immediately move the vehicle or vessel away from the vicinity of the cordoned area, if ordered to do so by a police officer.

(7) An order under this section may be given orally, and if an oral direction is given by a police officer to a group of individuals, it is deemed to have been given to each member of the group if the oral