The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE s. 486 157
(b) If the whole or some material part of the document or writing
purports to be made by or on behalf of some person who
did not make it or authorise it to be made, or if, in a case
when the time or place of making is material, although the
document or writing is made by or by the authority of the
person by whom it purports to be made, it is with a
fraudulent intent falsely dated as to the time or place of
making;
(c) If the whole or some material part of the document or writing
purports to be made by or on behalf of some person who
does not, in fact, exist; or
(d) If the document or writing is made in the name of an
existing person, either by that person himself or by his
authority, with the fraudulent intention that it should pass
as being made by some person, real or fictitious, other than
the person who makes it or anthorises it to be made.
A seal or mark is said to be counterfeit if it is made without lawful
authority, and is in such a farm as to resemble a genuine seal or mark,
or, in the case of a seal, in such a form as to be capable of producing
impressions resembling those produced by a genuine seal.
A representation of the impression of a seal is said to be counterfeit
if it is not in fact made by the seal.
The term “resemble,” applied to any thing, includes the case where
the thing is made to resemble, or is apparently intended to resemble, the
object spoken of.
6. onr of Forgery. A person who makes a false document or
writing, knowing it to be false, and with intent that it may in any way
be used or acted upon as genuine, whether in Queensland or elsewhere,
to the prejudice of any person, or with intent that any person may, in
the belief that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any
act, whether in Queensland or elsewhere, is said to forge the document
or writing.
A person who makes a counterfeit seal or mark, or makes an
impression of a counterfeit seal knowing the seal to be counterfeit, or
makes a counterfeit representation of the impression of a genuine seal, or
makes without lawful authority an impression of a genuine seal, with
intent in either case that the thing so made may in any way be used or
acted upon as genuine, whether in Queensland or elsewhere, to the prejudice
of any person, or with intent that any person may, in the belief
that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any act, whether
in Queensland or elsewhere, is said to forge the seal or mark.
The term “make a false document or writing” includes altering a
genuine document or writing in any material part, either by erasure,
obliteration, removal, or otherwise; and making any material addition to
the body of a genuine document or writing; and adding to a genuine
document or writing any false date, attestation, seal, or other material
matter.
It is immaterial in what language a forged document or writing is
expressed,
It is immaterial that the forger of anything forged may not have
intended that any particular person should use or act upon it, or that
any particular person should be prejudiced by it, or be induced to do or
refrain from doing any act.
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