Victorian Current Acts

EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1958 - SECT 142

Any person who—

S. 142(a) amended by No. 69/2009 s. 29(1)(a).

        (a)     forges or counterfeits any seal or stamp or the impression of any seal or stamp whatsoever purporting to be a seal or stamp such as is mentioned or referred to in any provision of this Act, or the Evidence Act 2008 ;

S. 142(b) amended by No. 69/2009 s. 29(1)(b).

        (b)     forges or counterfeits any signature whatsoever purporting to be a signature such as is mentioned or referred to in any provision of this Act, or the Evidence Act 2008 ;

S. 142(c) amended by No. 69/2009 s. 29(1)(c).

        (c)     fraudulently alters any document whatsoever purporting to be a document such as is mentioned or referred to in any provision of this Act, or the Evidence Act 2008 , or any seal stamp or signature thereon or thereto;

        (d)     affixes any such seal stamp or signature to any such document knowing such document to be untrue;

        (e)     except for some lawful purpose drafts engrosses copies or prepares any such document knowing the same to be untrue;

        (f)     without full disclosure tenders in evidence or otherwise uses any such document knowing that the seal or stamp or the impression of the seal or stamp or the signature thereon or thereto has been forged or counterfeited or is false or that such document is untrue or has become wholly or partially invalid or that such document or the seal stamp or the impression of the seal or stamp or the signature thereon or thereto has been fraudulently altered—

shall be guilty of an indictable offence and be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.

No. 3674 s. 135.

S. 143 amended by Nos 9576 s. 11(1), 9945 s. 3(3)(Sch. 2 item 16), 69/2009 s. 29(2).