Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 (137 of 2000)

Schedule 2   Amendment of other laws

Part 1   Amendments

Imported Food Control Act 1992

240   At the end of Division 2 of Part 2

Add:

19A Forging and uttering

Forging

(1) For the purposes of this Division, a person is taken to have forged a document if the person:

(a) makes a document which is false, knowing it to be false; or

(b) without authority, alters a genuine document in a material particular;

with intent that:

(c) the false or altered document may be used, acted on, or accepted, as genuine, to the prejudice of another person; or

(d) another person may, in the belief that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing an act, whether in Australia or elsewhere.

(2) For the purposes of this Division, if a person:

(a) makes a document which is false, knowing it to be false; or

(b) without authority, alters a genuine document in a material particular;

with intent that a computer, a machine or other device should respond to the false or altered document as if it were genuine:

(c) to the prejudice of another person; or

(d) with the result that another person would be induced to do or refrain from doing an act, whether in Australia or elsewhere;

the first-mentioned person is taken to have forged the document.

Uttering

(3) For the purposes of this Division, a person is taken to utter a forged document if the person:

(a) uses or deals with it; or

(b) attempts to use or deal with it; or

(c) attempts to induce another person to use, deal with, act upon, or accept it.