Offences relating to warrants
175 Offences relating to warrants
An inspector must not make, in an application for a warrant, a statement that the inspector knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.
Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.
An inspector must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 174 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued 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 form authorised by the magistrate; 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:
has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or
departs in a material particular from the terms authorised by a magistrate under that section; or
give to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.
Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.
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