Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p187
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 187/268)
Character Range: 838144–840701

part of the document:
 (i) purports to have been made or altered by a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not exist; or
 (ii) purports to have been made or altered on the authority of a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not exist; or
 (e) the document, or any part of the document, purports to have been made or altered by a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, 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.
 (2) For the purposes of this Part, a person is taken to make a false Commonwealth document if the person alters a document so as to make it a false Commonwealth document (whether or not it was already a false Commonwealth document before the alteration).
 (3) This section has effect as if a document that purports to be a true copy of another document were the original document.
 (4) A reference in this section to a Commonwealth public official is a reference to a person in the person's capacity as a Commonwealth public official.

143.4  Inducing acceptance of false documents
  If it is necessary for the purposes of this Part to prove an intent to induce a person in the person's capacity as a public official to accept a false document as genuine, it is not necessary to prove that the defendant intended so to induce a particular person in the person's capacity as a public official.

Division 144—Forgery

144.1  Forgery
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person makes a false document with the intention that the person or another will use it:
 (i) to dishonestly induce a third person in the third person's capacity as a public official to accept it as genuine; and
 (ii) if it is so accepted, to dishonestly obtain a gain, dishonestly cause a loss, or dishonestly influence the exercise of a public duty or function; and
 (b) the capacity is a capacity as a Commonwealth public official.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the capacity was a capacity as a Commonwealth public official.
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person makes a false document with the intention that the person or another will use it:
 (i) to dishonestly cause a computer, a machine or an electronic device to respond to the document as if the document were genuine; and
 (ii) if it is so responded to, to dishonestly obtain a gain, dishonestly cause a loss,