Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00459:clause:1_57
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008C00459
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 57
Character Range: 587765–589018

57  Meanings of unauthorised modification and unauthorised impairment etc.

 (1) In this Division:
 (a) modification of identifying information; or
 (b) impairment of the reliability of identifying information; or
 (c) impairment of the security of the storage of identifying information; or
 (d) impairment of the operation of a system by which identifying information is stored;
by a person is unauthorised if the person is not entitled to cause that modification or impairment.

 (2) Any such modification or impairment caused by the person is not unauthorised merely because he or she has an ulterior purpose for causing it.

 (3) For the purposes of an offence under this Division, a person causes any such unauthorised modification or impairment if the person's conduct substantially contributes to it.

 (4) For the purposes of subclause (1), if:
 (a) a person causes any modification or impairment of a kind mentioned in that subclause; and
 (b) the person does so under a warrant issued under the law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
the person is entitled to cause that modification or impairment.

Note: This clause corresponds closely to section 336J of the Migration Act 1958.

Subdivision E—Retaining identifying information