South Australian Consolidated Acts

TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ACT 1975 - SECT 40

40—Requirement to leave college premises

        (1)         A person who is on the premises of a college without lawful authority must leave the college premises if lawfully requested to do so.

Penalty: Division 9 fine.

        (2)         A request to leave the premises of a college is lawful—

            (a)         if made by—

                  (i)         an officer or employee appointed under this Act or employed in the Department; or

                  (ii)         a member of the council of the college; or

                  (iii)         a person engaged by the Minister for the protection of property of the college; or

                  (iv)         any person, or person of a class, authorised by the Chief Executive Officer to make such requests; and

            (b)         if the person making the request advises the person of whom the request is made that he or she is authorised under this Act to make such a request.

        (3)         In any proceedings for an offence against this Act, an apparently genuine document purporting to be under the hand of the Chief Executive Officer and to certify that a specified person was at a specified time authorised by or under this section to request persons to leave college premises must be accepted as proof of the matters so certified in the absence of proof to the contrary.