Criminal Code Act 1983

For this Division, a document is a false document 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

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

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

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

to have been changed in any way by a person who did not change it in that way; or

to have been changed in any way on the authority of a person who did not authorise it to be changed in that way; or

to have been made or changed by an existing person who did not exist; or

to have been made or changed on the authority of an existing person who did not exist; or

to have been made or changed on a date on which, at a time or place at which, or otherwise in circumstances in which it was not made or changed.

For this Division, making a false document includes changing the document so as to make it a false document under subsection (1) (whether or not it already was false in some other way).

For this Division, a document that purports to be a true copy of another document is to be treated as if it were the original document.