Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00117:section:39zia
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00117
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 39ZIA
Character Range: 123206–124705

39ZIA  Offences relating to warrants by telephone and other electronic means

Offence for stating incorrect names in warrants by telephone and other electronic means
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person states a name of a magistrate in a document; and
 (b) the document purports to be a form of warrant under section 39ZI; and
 (c) the name is not the name of the magistrate who issued the warrant.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Offence for unauthorised form of warrant
 (2) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person states a matter in a form of warrant under section 39ZI; and
 (b) the matter departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Offence for execution etc. of unauthorised form of warrant
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person executes a document or presents a document to a person; and
 (b) the document purports to be a form of warrant under section 39ZI; and
 (c) the document:
 (i) has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or
 (ii) departs in a material particular from the terms authorised by the magistrate under that section.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Offence for giving unexecuted form of warrant
 (4) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person gives a magistrate a form of warrant under section 39ZI; and
 (b) the document is not the form of warrant that the person executed.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

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