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NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 289

Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc.

  (1)   An inspector contravenes this subsection if:

  (a)   the inspector states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section   288 the name of a magistrate, unless that magistrate signed the warrant; or

  (b)   the inspector states on a form of warrant under that section a matter that, to the inspector's knowledge, departs in a material particular from the terms of the warrant signed by the magistrate under that section; or

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

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

  (ii)   departs in a material particular from the terms of a warrant signed by a magistrate under that section; or

  (d)   the inspector gives to a magistrate a form of warrant under that section that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Fault - based offence

  (2)   A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection   (1).

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 2 years.



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