Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 175

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

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.

Note:          Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

             (2)  An inspector must not:

                     (a)  state in a document that purports to be a form of warrant under section 174 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 inspector'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 inspector 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 that section that is not the form of warrant that the inspector purported to execute.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units.

Note:          Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.