47Offences relating to telephone warrants

47 Offences relating to telephone warrants

A national inspector commits an offence if the inspector: (a) states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant issued under section 37 the name of a person as the magistrate issuing the warrant who is not the magistrate who issued the warrant; or (b) states in 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 issuing the warrant; or (c) purports to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 37 that the inspector 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) gives the magistrate a form of warrant under section 37 that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.