Crimes Act 1900
243Offences relating to telephone warrants
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243 Offences relating to telephone warrants A person shall not— (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 205 the name of an issuing officer unless that officer 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 issuing officer; or (c) purport to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the person knows— (i) has not been approved by an issuing officer under that section; or
(ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by an issuing officer under that section; or (d) 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.