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Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc.
Offence title:
Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc.
Act:
487ZF Migration Act 1958
Offence:
An authorised officer must not:
(a) State the name of the issuing officer of a s.487ZD warrant, unless that officers signs the warrant; or
(b) State anything on the warrant that departs in a material particular from the terms of it; or
(c) Purport to execute, or present to another, a document in the form of a search warrant, that departs in material particular from the terms of a warrant; or
(d) Give to an issuing officer a form of search warrant that is not in correct form that the authorised officer purported to execute.
To do any of the above would be an offence.
Penalty:
Imprisonment for 2 years
Summary/Indictable/mixed:
Mixed
Jurisdiction:
Local, District or Supreme Court
How committed:
Produce a takeaway menu to some one who does not read English, holding out it is a search warrant and providing power to authorise a search.