Crimes Act 1914

Pt V repealed by No 137 of 2000, s 3 and Sch 2 item 153, effective 24 May 2001.

Act No 137 of 2000 contained the following transitional provisions, effective 24 May 2001:

S 63 repealed by No 137 of 2000, s 3 and Sch 2 item 153, effective 24 May 2001. For transitional provisions see note under Pt V heading. S 63 formerly read:

What amounts to forgery

(1)
A person shall be deemed to forge a seal, signature, document, register, or record, as the case may be:

(a) if he makes a counterfeit of the seal, or of the impression of the seal;

(b) if he makes a counterfeit of the signature;

(c) if he makes a document, register, or record, which is false, knowing it to be false; or

(d) if he, without authority, by any means whatever, alters a genuine document, register, or record, in any material particular;

with intent that the counterfeit seal or impression of a seal or signature, or the false or altered document, register, or record, may be used, acted on, or accepted, as genuine, to the prejudice of the Commonwealth, or of any State or person, or with the intent that the Commonwealth, or any State or person, may, in the belief that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any act whether in Australia or elsewhere.

(2)
A person shall be deemed to make a counterfeit of a seal, or of an impression of a seal, or of a signature, if he, without authority:

(a) in the case of a seal, makes a seal in the form of the genuine seal, or in a form resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for the genuine seal;

(b) in the case of an impression of a seal, makes an impression of the genuine seal, or an impression resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for the impression of the genuine seal; or

(c) in the case of a signature, makes a signature in the form of the genuine signature, or in a form resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for the genuine signature.

(3)
Where a person does an act referred to in a paragraph of subsection (1) with intent that a computer, a machine or other device should respond to the counterfeit seal or impression of a seal or signature, or to the false or altered document, register or record, as if it were genuine:

(a) to the prejudice of the Commonwealth or of any State or person; or

(b) with the result that the Commonwealth or any State or person would be induced to do or refrain from doing any act, whether in Australia or elsewhere;

the person shall be taken to have forged the seal, signature, document, register or record, as the case may be.