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s 69EHD

Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc

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Part 7AAInvestigative powers
Division 7Applying for warrants etc.

69EHD Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc

An inspector must not:

(a)

state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 69EHB the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate signed the warrant; or

(b)

state on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the inspector’s knowledge, departs in a material particular from the terms of the warrant signed by the magistrate under that section; or

(c)

purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the inspector knows departs in a material particular from the terms of a warrant signed by a magistrate under that section; or

(d)

purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section where the inspector knows that no warrant in the terms of the form of warrant has been completed and signed by a magistrate; or

(e)

give to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

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