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who did not authorise its alteration in that respect; or
 (d) the document, or any part of the document:
 (i) purports to have been made or altered by a person who did not exist; or
 (ii) purports to have been made or altered on the authority of a person who did not exist; or
 (e) the document, or any part of the document, purports to have been made or altered 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 document if the person alters a document so as to make it a false document (whether or not it was already a false 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.

143.3  False Commonwealth documents

 (1) For the purposes of this Part, a document is a false Commonwealth document if, and only if:
 (a) the document, or any part of the document:
 (i) purports to have been made in the form in which it is made by a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not make it in that form; or
 (ii) purports to have been made in the form in which it is made on the authority of a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not authorise its making in that form; or
 (b) the document, or any part of the document:
 (i) purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made by a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not make it in those terms; or
 (ii) purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made on the authority of a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not authorise its making in those terms; or
 (c) the document, or any part of the document:
 (i) purports to have been altered in any respect by a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not alter it in that respect; or
 (ii) purports to have been altered in any respect on the authority of a Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth public official, who did not authorise its alteration in that respect; or
 (d) the document, or any 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