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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.