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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 June 2011 - onwards
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80. Right to demand name and address, etc., of pedal cyclist.

The following section is substituted for section 108 of the Principal Act:

"108. A member of the Garda Síochána may demand of a person in charge of a pedal cycle whom the member suspects of having committed any crime or offence or of having been concerned or involved in a collision or other event in a public place causing injury to person or property, the name and address and date of birth of such person, and if such a person refuses or fails to give his or her name and address or date of birth or gives a name or address or date of birth which the member has reasonable grounds for believing to be false or misleading, the member may take the cycle, by reasonable force if necessary, and retain it until such time as he or she is satisfied as to the identity of such person.".