72Offences relating to telephone warrants

72 Offences relating to telephone warrants

A national inspector must not: (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant issued under section 63 the name of a person as the magistrate issuing the warrant unless that magistrate issued the warrant; or (b) state in 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 issuing the warrant; or (c) purport to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 63 that the person knows: (i) has not been approved by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or (ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or (d) give to the magistrate a form of warrant under section 63 that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.