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Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998
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#### 80 Offences relating to warrants
(1) 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.
(2) A person must not:
(a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 79 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued the warrant; or
(b) 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 magistrate; or
(c) 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:
(i) has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or
(ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by a magistrate under that section; or
(d) give to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the person purported to execute.
Penalty for contravention of this subsection: Imprisonment for 2 years.