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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Preservation directions - Offences

79P: False application for preservation direction

You could also call this:

"It's an offence to give false info when asking to keep something as evidence"

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You commit an offence if you apply for a preservation direction with false information. You know the information is false when you apply. If you are convicted, you could go to prison for up to 1 year.

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Part 3Enforcement officers' powers and orders
Preservation directions: Offences

79PFalse application for preservation direction

  1. A person commits an offence if they apply for a preservation direction and the application contains any assertion or other statement that they know is false.

  2. A person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year.

Notes
  • Section 79P: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).