# Offence relating to search warrants by telephone, fax etc.

> act-s487ZF — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

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.

Subdivision G—Identity cards