Section 3ZZPB — Crimes Act 1914: Offences relating to telephone warrants
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A person commits an offence if: (a) the person states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 3ZZPA the name of an issuing officer unless that officer issued the warrant; or (b) the person states 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 issuing officer; or (c) the person purports 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 an issuing officer under that section; or (ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by an issuing officer under that section; or (d) the person gives to an issuing 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.
Official source: Federal Register of Legislation
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