Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2006C00152:clause:1_15:p27
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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 15 (pt 27/39)
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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 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 is guilty of an offence if:
 (a) the person makes a false document with the intention that the person or another will use it:
 (i)