Section 437 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Offences relating to telephone warrants

A person must not: (a) state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 409A or 416 the name of a magistrate unless the magistrate issued the warrant; or (b) state on a form of warrant under section 409A or 416 a matter that, to the person’s knowledge, departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate; or (c) purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 409A or 416 that the person 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) give to a magistrate a form of warrant under section 409A or 416 that is not the form of warrant that the person purported to execute. Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.