Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc
73 Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc
An authorised applicant must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 71 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 authorised applicant’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 authorised applicant 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 where the authorised applicant 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 authorised applicant purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.