Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p180
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 180/268)
Character Range: 821224–823927

reference in any law to section 137.1 is taken to include a reference to this section.

137.2  False or misleading documents
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person produces a document to another person; and
 (b) the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading; and
 (c) the document is produced in compliance or purported compliance with a law of the Commonwealth.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2). See subsection 13.3(3).
 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate:
 (a) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and
 (b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See subsection 13.3(3).

137.3  Geographical jurisdiction
  Section 15.4 (extended geographical jurisdiction—category D) applies to each offence against this Division.

Part 7.5—Unwarranted demands

Division 138—Preliminary

138.1  Unwarranted demand with menaces
 (1) For the purposes of this Part, a person (the first person) makes an unwarranted demand with menaces of another person if, and only if:
 (a) the first person makes a demand with menaces of the other person; and
 (b) the first person does not believe that he or she has reasonable grounds for making the demand; and
 (c) the first person does not reasonably believe that the use of the menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand.
 (2) This Part applies to a demand whether or not it is for property.
 (3) This Part applies to a demand with menaces, whether or not the menaces relate to conduct to be engaged in by the person making the demand.

138.2  Menaces
 (1) For the purposes of this Part, menaces includes:
 (a) a threat (whether express or implied) of conduct that is detrimental or unpleasant to another person; or
 (b) a general threat of detrimental or unpleasant conduct that is implied because of the status, office or position of the maker of the threat.

Threat against an individual
 (2) For the purposes of this Part, a threat against an individual is taken not to be menaces unless:
 (a) both:
 (i) the threat would be likely to cause the individual