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Offences relating to warrants

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Part 7Powers of inspection etc.
Division 1Appointment and powers of inspectors

80 Offences relating to warrants

(1)

A person must not make, in an application for a warrant, a statement that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(2)

A person must not:

(a)

state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 79 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued the warrant; or

(b)

state on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the person’s knowledge, departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate; 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 first‑mentioned person knows:

(i)

has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or

(ii)

to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by a magistrate under that section; or

(d)

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

Penalty for contravention of this subsection: Imprisonment for 2 years.

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