Offences relating to telephone warrants
3ZU Offences relating to telephone warrants
A person must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 3R the name of an issuing officer unless that officer issued the warrant; or
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 issuing officer; or
purport to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the person knows:
has not been approved by an issuing officer under that section; or
to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by an issuing officer under that section; or
give to an issuing officer a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the person purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
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