Forgery and uttering Act documents

In force

(1)

A person must not—

(a)

forge an Act document; or

(b)

knowingly utter an Act document that is forged.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(2)

A person must not pretend to be a person named in an Act document, whether or not the person refers to the document.Examples for subsection (2)—

1 If a person steals an authorised officer’s identity card, the person must not pretend to be the authorised officer identified in the card.

2 A person must not pretend to be an authorised officer by telling someone else that the person is an authorised officer.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(3)

In this section—forge includes counterfeit.

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