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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Preservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings - Invalidity, offences, and immunities, etc - Other offences

88Y: False application for preservation direction or renewal

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"Lying when asking to keep something as evidence is against the law"

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You commit an offence if you apply for a preservation direction or renewal and make a false statement. You must not say something you know is false when applying. If you do this, you could go to prison for up to 1 year.

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Part 3APreservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings
Invalidity, offences, and immunities, etc: Other offences

88YFalse application for preservation direction or renewal

  1. A person commits an offence if—

  2. they apply for a preservation direction or for renewal of a preservation direction; and
    1. the application contains any assertion or other statement that they know is false.

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

      Notes
      • Section 88Y: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).