Providing or possessing a travel or identity document issued or altered dishonestly or as a result of threats
73.9 Providing or possessing a travel or identity document issued or altered dishonestly or as a result of threats
A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
the first person provides or possesses a travel or identity document; and
the first person knows that:
the issue of the travel or identity document; or
an alteration of the travel or identity document;
has been obtained dishonestly or by threats; and
the first person intends that the document will be used to facilitate the entry of another person (the other person) into a foreign country, where the entry of the other person into the foreign country would not comply with the requirements under that country’s law for entry into the country; and
the first person provided or possessed the document:
having obtained (whether directly or indirectly) a benefit to do so; or
with the intention of obtaining (whether directly or indirectly) a benefit.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both.
For the purposes of subsection (1), a threat may be:
express or implied; or
conditional or unconditional.
For the purposes of subsection (1), dishonest means:
dishonest according to the standards of ordinary people; and
known by the defendant to be dishonest according to the standards of ordinary people.
In a prosecution for an offence against this section, the determination of dishonesty is a matter for the trier of fact.
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