South Australian Consolidated Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 229

229—Indictable offences under this Act

If any person is guilty of the following offences, or any of them (that is to say)—

            (a)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging or fraudulently affixes procures to be affixed or assists in affixing the seal of the Registrar-General, or an impression or part of an impression of such seal to any instrument;

            (b)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging the name, signature, or handwriting of the Registrar-General or of any officer in any case where such officer is by this Act expressly or impliedly authorised to affix his signature;

            (c)         fraudulently stamps or causes to be stamped any document with the seal of the Registrar-General or with a seal purporting to be the seal of the Registrar-General;

            (d)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging the name, signature, or handwriting of any person whomsoever, to any instrument which is by this Act, or in pursuance of any power contained in this Act, expressly or impliedly authorised to be signed by such person;

            (e)         uses, with an intention to defraud any person whomsoever, any document upon which any impression or part of the impression of any seal of the Registrar-General has been forged, or fraudulently affixed knowing the same to be fraudulently affixed, or any document the signature to which has been forged knowing the same to have been forged,

such person shall be guilty of an indictable offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 14 years.