Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
62Offences relating to warrants
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62 Offences relating to warrants
(1) An inspector must not make, in an application for a warrant, a statement that the inspector knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) An inspector must not: (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 61 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued the enforcement warrant; or (b) state on 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; or (c) purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the inspector knows: (i) has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or (ii) departs in a material particular from the terms authorised by a magistrate under that section; or (d) give to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of enforcement warrant that the inspector purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.