GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2001 - SECT 175
GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2001 - SECT 175
175—Offences relating to warrants
(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 $13 200.
(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 $13 200.