Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:203q
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 203Q
Character Range: 1309219–1310376

203Q  Offences relating to telephone warrants
 (1) A person must not:
 (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 203M the name of a judicial officer; 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 judicial officer; or
 (c) purport to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the person knows:
 (i) has not been approved by a judicial officer under that section; or
 (ii) departs in a material particular from the terms authorised by a judicial officer under that section; or
 (d) give to a judicial 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.
 (2) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply if the judicial officer named in the warrant issued it.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).

Subdivision F—Dealing with things seized as evidential material