Part 4Police powers etc.

Chapter 2Provisions modifying and supplementing police powers

Power to require name and address

50 Persons acting in an anti-social manner

1

If a constable in uniform has reason to believe that a person has been acting, or is acting, in an anti-social manner F2..., he may require that person to give his name and address to the constable.

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In subsection (1) “anti-social behaviour” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (ignoring subsection (2) of that section).

2

Any person who—

a

fails to give his name and address when required to do so under subsection (1), or

b

gives a false or inaccurate name or address in response to a requirement under that subsection,

is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.