34TOffences relating to telephone warrants

##### 34T Offences relating to telephone warrants A person must not: (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 34E 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 person’s knowledge, departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate who issued the warrant; 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 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 a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the person purported to execute. Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years. > Note: Subsection 4B(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose an appropriate fine instead of, or in addition to, a term of imprisonment. If a body corporate is convicted of an offence, subsection 4B(3) of that Act allows a court to impose a fine of an amount that is not greater than 5 times the maximum fine that could be imposed by a court on an individual convicted of the same offence.