Offences relating to telephone warrants
72 Offences relating to telephone warrants
A national inspector must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant issued under section 63 the name of a person as the magistrate issuing the warrant unless that magistrate issued the warrant; or
state in 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 issuing the warrant; or
purport to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 63 that the person knows:
has not been approved by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or
to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or
give to the magistrate a form of warrant under section 63 that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
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