Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345:section:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10
Character Range: 58843–60136

10  Forging and uttering

Forging
 (1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to have forged a document if the person:
 (a) makes a document which is false, knowing it to be false; or
 (b) without authority, alters a genuine document in a material particular;
with intent that:
 (c) the false or altered document may be used, acted on, or accepted, as genuine, to the prejudice of another person; or
 (d) another person may, in the belief that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing an act.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act, if a person:
 (a) makes a document which is false, knowing it to be false; or
 (b) without authority, alters a genuine document in a material particular;
with intent that a computer, a machine or other device should respond to the false or altered document as if it were genuine:
 (c) to the prejudice of another person; or
 (d) with the result that another person would be induced to do or refrain from doing an act;
the first‑mentioned person is taken to have forged the document.

Uttering
 (3) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to utter a forged document if the person:
 (a) uses or deals with it; or
 (b) attempts to use or deal with it; or
 (c) attempts to induce another person to use, deal with, act upon, or accept it.