Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc
71 Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc
An inspector must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 69 the name of an issuing officer unless that issuing officer signed the warrant; or
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 issuing officer under that section; or
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 an issuing officer under that section; or
purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section if the inspector knows that no warrant in the terms of the form of warrant has been completed and signed by an issuing officer; or
give to an issuing officer 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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