Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:234
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 234
Character Range: 565960–567366

234  Offences relating to warrants
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is an authorised compliance officer; and
 (b) the person makes, in an application for a monitoring warrant or an investigation warrant, a statement that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.
 (2) A person commits an offence if the person is an authorised compliance officer and the person:
 (a) states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 227 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate issued the warrant; or
 (b) states on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the authorised compliance officer's knowledge, departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate; 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 authorised compliance officer 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) gives to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the authorised compliance officer purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.

Subdivision C—Powers of magistrates