Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094:section:289
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 289
Character Range: 279418–280575

289  Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc.
 (1) An inspector contravenes this subsection if:
 (a) the inspector states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 288 the name of a magistrate, unless that magistrate signed the warrant; or
 (b) the inspector states on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the inspector's knowledge, departs in a material particular from the terms of the warrant signed by the magistrate under that section; or
 (c) the inspector purports to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the inspector knows:
 (i) has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or
 (ii) departs in a material particular from the terms of a warrant signed by a magistrate under that section; or
 (d) the inspector gives to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Fault‑based offence
 (2) A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

Division 8—Powers of magistrates