Criminal Code Act 1995

For the purposes of this Part, a document is a false document if, and only if:

the document, or any part of the document:

purports to have been made in the form in which it is made by a person who did not make it in that form; or

purports to have been made in the form in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not authorise its making in that form; or

the document, or any part of the document:

purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made by a person who did not make it in those terms; or

purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not authorise its making in those terms; or

the document, or any part of the document:

purports to have been altered in any respect by a person who did not alter it in that respect; or

purports to have been altered in any respect on the authority of a person who did not authorise its alteration in that respect; or

the document, or any part of the document:

purports to have been made or altered by a person who did not exist; or

purports to have been made or altered on the authority of a person who did not exist; or

the document, or any part of the document, purports to have been made or altered on a date on which, at a time at which, at a place at which, or otherwise in circumstances in which, it was not made or altered.

For the purposes of this Part, a person is taken to make a false document if the person alters a document so as to make it a false document (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration).

This section has effect as if a document that purports to be a true copy of another document were the original document.