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AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 80

Offences relating to warrants

  (1)   A person must not make, in an application for a warrant, a statement that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 2 years.

  (2)   A person must not:

  (a)   state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section   79 the name of a magistrate unless that magistrate 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 magistrate; or

  (c)   purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under that section that the first - mentioned person knows:

  (i)   has not been approved by a magistrate under that section; or

  (ii)   to depart 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 that section that is not the form of warrant that the person purported to execute.

Penalty for contravention of this subsection:   Imprisonment for 2 years.



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