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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 437

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.



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