South Australian Consolidated Acts

BRANDS ACT 1933 - SECT 75

75—Punishment for forged or false registrations or entries

Any person who—

            (a)         knowingly and unlawfully inserts, or causes or suffers to be inserted, any false entry of any matter relating to any brand or mark in any register, certificate, or quarterly statement of brands, or in any extract from any register, certificate, or quarterly statement of brands; or

            (b)         forges, or, with intent to defraud, alters any brand or mark or any register, certificate, or quarterly statement, or any extract therefrom or entry therein, or that which purports to be such extract or entry, or, with intent to defraud, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any of such things knowing it to have been forged or altered; or

            (c)         wilfully and unlawfully destroys, defaces, or injures, or causes to be destroyed, defaced, or injured, any brand or mark, register, certificate, or quarterly statement, or any extract therefrom or entry therein, or any part thereof; or

            (d)         knowingly and wilfully, with intent to defraud, uses the brand or mark of any person without his authority,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.