A person who—
(a)
wilfully and fraudulently makes any false statement in any application to
bring land under the provisions of this Act, or in any application to be
registered as proprietor, whether in possession, reversion, remainder, or
otherwise on a transmission, or in any other application to be registered
under this Act as proprietor of any land, or any estate or interest in any
land;
(b)
wilfully and fraudulently suppresses, withholds, or conceals, or assists, or
joins in, or is privy to the suppressing, withholding, or concealing from the
Registrar-General or any Deputy Registrar-General any material document, fact,
or matter of information;
(c)
wilfully and fraudulently gives false evidence, or makes a false statement in
his examination before the Registrar-General or any Deputy Registrar-General;
(d)
without lawful authority and knowing that no such authority exists
intentionally alters or causes to be altered—
(i)
a certificate of title filed in the Register Book; or
(ii)
records made by the Registrar-General by an electronic,
electromagnetic, optical or photographic process under Division 2 of Part 5 or
a certificate of title issued under that Division; or
(iii)
any instrument comprising part of the Register Book; or
(iv)
any instrument or form issued by the Registrar-General;
or
(v)
a client authorisation;
(da)
fraudulently uses, assists in fraudulently using or is privy to the fraudulent
using of a digital signature within the meaning of the Electronic Conveyancing
National Law (South Australia) ;
(e)
fraudulently uses, assists in fraudulently using, or is privy to the
fraudulent using of any form purporting to be issued or sanctioned by the
Registrar-General;
(f)
knowingly misleads or deceives any person hereinbefore authorised to demand
explanation or information in respect of any land, or the title to any land,
which is the subject of any application to bring the same under the provisions
of this Act, or in respect of which any instrument is proposed to be
registered or recorded,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $50 000 or imprisonment for 10 years.