Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:494
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 494
Character Range: 791640–793062

494  Fault‑based offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc.
  A biosecurity enforcement officer commits an offence if the biosecurity enforcement officer:
 (a) states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 492 the name of an issuing officer, unless that issuing officer signed the warrant; or
 (b) states on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the biosecurity enforcement officer's knowledge, departs in a material particular from the terms of the warrant signed by the issuing officer under that section; or
 (c) purports to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the biosecurity enforcement officer knows departs in a material particular from the terms of a warrant signed by an issuing officer under that section; or
 (d) purports to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section where the biosecurity enforcement officer knows that no warrant in the terms of the form of warrant has been completed and signed by an issuing officer; or
 (e) gives to an issuing officer a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the biosecurity enforcement officer purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units, or both.

Division 3—Executing warrants relating to aircraft or vessels