Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 356

356 False certificates by officers charged with duties relating to liberty

Any person who—

(a) being required by law to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the liberty of any person may be affected, gives a certificate which, in any material particular, is to the person’s knowledge false; or

(b) not being a person authorised by law to give such a certificate as aforesaid, gives such a certificate, and represents himself or herself to be a person authorised to give the same;