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Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary security - Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers - Power to ask for identification

168: Power to ask for identification

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You can be asked for your name and address if you want to enter or are in the parliamentary precincts. You can also be asked why you want to enter or are in the precincts. A parliamentary security officer can ask you for this information if they have a good reason. If you give false information, you may be asked to prove what you said is true. The officer can ask you for proof if they think you are not telling the truth. You will need to give satisfactory evidence to show your information is correct. You might not be allowed to enter or stay in the parliamentary precincts if you do not give the information asked for. You can also be removed if you give a reason for being there that makes the officer think you might be a security threat. The officer's decision is based on what you tell them and whether you follow their requests.

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Powers and duties of parliamentary security officers: Power to ask for identification

168Power to ask for identification

  1. A parliamentary security officer may, if the officer has reasonable grounds for asking for the information, ask any person who wants to enter, or is in, the parliamentary precincts to provide the officer with the following information:

  2. the person’s name and address:
    1. the person’s reason for either wanting to enter the parliamentary precincts or being in the precincts.

      1. A parliamentary security officer who believes on reasonable grounds that any information provided in response to a request under subsection (1)(a) is false may require the person concerned to provide satisfactory evidence of the information.

      2. A parliamentary security officer may deny a person entry to, or remove a person from, the parliamentary precincts if the person—

      3. does not comply with a request under subsection (1) or (2); or
        1. gives a reason under subsection (1)(b) that gives the officer reasonable grounds to believe that the person may threaten the security of the parliamentary precincts.

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