Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK (REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS) ACT 2009 - SECT 10

Forging

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, 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.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Act, 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;

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

Uttering

  (3)   For the purposes of this Act, 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.