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.