Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsA national inspector commits an offence if the inspector:
(a) states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant issued under section 37 the name of a person as the magistrate issuing the warrant who is not the magistrate who issued the warrant; or
(b) states in a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the inspector's knowledge, departs in a material particular from the form authorised by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or
(c) purports to execute, or present to a person, a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 37 that the inspector knows:
(i) has not been approved by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or
(ii) to depart in a material particular from the terms authorised by the magistrate issuing the warrant; or
(d) gives the magistrate a form of warrant under section 37 that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.