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CRIMES ACT 1914

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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 3ZU

3ZU Offences relating to telephone warrants
A person must not:
(a)
state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 3R the name of an issuing officer unless that officer issued the warrant; 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 issuing 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 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)
give 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.

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