Section 487ZF — Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc.
CurrentPart 8E—Investigation powers relating to certain offences and provisions · Division 3—Search warrants · Subdivision F—Issue of search warrants · Migration Act 1958
C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171As in force on 4 June 2026
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- Section 487ZF
- As in force on
- 4 June 2026
- Citation
- C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171
Section 487ZF — Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc.
487ZF Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc. An authorised officer must not:
(a) state in a document that purports to be a form of search warrant under section 487ZD the name of an issuing officer unless that issuing officer signed the warrant; or
(b) state on a form of search warrant under that section a matter that, to the authorised officer’s knowledge, departs in a material particular from the terms of the warrant signed by the issuing officer under that section; or
(c) purport to execute, or present to another person, a document that purports to be a form of search warrant under that section that the authorised officer knows departs in a material particular from the terms of a warrant signed by an issuing officer under that section; or
(d) give to an issuing officer a form of search warrant under that section that is not the form of search warrant that the authorised officer purported to execute.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
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