COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 136A Offence relating to warrants by telephone, fax etc.

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 136A

    An inspector commits an offence if the inspector:

  (a)   states in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section   136 the name of a judge unless that judge signed the warrant; or

  (b)   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 judge under that section; or

  (c)   purports to execute, or presents 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 judge under that section; or

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

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

Penalty:   120 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.