197False certificates by officers charged with duties relating to

197 False certificates by officers charged with duties relating to liberty (a) being required by law to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the liberty of any person may be affected, gives a certificate that, in any material particular, is to his knowledge false; or (b) not being a person authorized by law to give such a certificate, gives such a certificate and represents himself to be a person authorized to give it, Criminal Code Act 1983 164