Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632:section:51b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 51B
Character Range: 1055761–1056864

51B  Offences relating to warrants
 (1) A person must not make, in an application for a warrant, a statement that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
 (2) A person must not:
 (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 51 the name of an issuing officer unless that issuing officer 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 issuing officer; 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 first‑mentioned person knows:
 (i) has not been approved by an issuing officer under that section; or
 (ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by an issuing officer under that section; or
 (d) give to an issuing officer 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.