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.

(2) An inspector must not— (a) state a magistrate’s name in a document purporting to be a form of warrant under section 174 unless the magistrate issued the warrant; or (b) state on a form of warrant under section 174 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 someone, a document purporting to be a form of warrant under section 174 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 section 174 that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.