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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

General provisions in relation to search, surveillance, and inspection powers - Offences

175: False application for examination order, production order, search warrant, surveillance device warrant, or declaratory order

You could also call this:

"Lying on an application for a search or surveillance order can get you in trouble"

If you make an application for something like a search warrant and you know something in it is not true, you can get in trouble. You might have to go to prison for up to one year if you are found guilty. This happens when you deliberately put false information in an application for an examination order, production order, search warrant, surveillance device warrant, or declaratory order.

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Part 4General provisions in relation to search, surveillance, and inspection powers
Offences

175False application for examination order, production order, search warrant, surveillance device warrant, or declaratory order

  1. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year who makes an application for an examination order, production order, search warrant, surveillance device warrant, or declaratory order that contains any assertion or other statement known by the person to be false.