Offences relating to warrants
51B Offences relating to warrants
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.
A person must not:
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 51 the name of an issuing officer unless that issuing 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 another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the first‑mentioned 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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