175Offences relating to warrants

175 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.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.

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

(2) An inspector must not: (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 174 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued the 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 warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.

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