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

160 s.488 CRIMINAL CODE
111. Documents relating to Revenue and Acts of State, etc. If the
thing forged purports to be, or is intended by the offender to be
understood to be or to be used as, any of the things following, that is
to say,-
(a) The signature of the Governor, or of a member of the
Executive Council, or of any of Her Majesty’s Principal
Secretaries of State or Under Secretaries of State, upon any
grant, commission, warrant, or order;
(b) A seal or stamp used for the purposes of the public revenue
in Queensland or of any other part of Her Majesty’s
dominions or in any foreign State;
(c) A document relating to the obtaining or receiving of any
money payable on account of the public service of Queens-
land or any other part of Her Majesty’s dominions, or any
other property of Her Majesty in any part of Her dominions,
or a power of attorney or other authority to execute any
such document;
the offender is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years,
with or without solitary confinement.
em, ee, etc. If the thing forged
purports to be, or is intended by the offender to be understood to be or
to be used as, any of the things following, that is to say,-
(a) The seal of a Court of Record in any part of Her Majesty’s
dominions, or a seal used at the Chambers of a Judge of the
Supreme Court €or stamping or sealing summonses or orders;
(13) A seal or signature by virtue whereof any document can by
law be used as evidence;
(c) Any process of any court of justice in any part of Her
Majesty’s dominions;
(d) A document issued or made by or out of or by the authority
of any such court as last aforesaid;
(e) A document or copy of a document of any kind, which
document or copy is intended by the offender to be used as
evidence in any such court as last aforesaid;
(f) A record or other document of or belonging to a Court of
Record in any part of Her Majesty’s dominions;
(g) A copy or certificate of any record of any such Court as
last aforesaid;
(h) An instrument, whether written or printed, or partly written
and partly printed, which is made evidence by any Statute
in force in Queensland;
(i) A document which a justice is required or authorised by
law to make, attest, or issue, and purporting to be made,
attested, or issued, by a justice;
fj) A stamp used for denoting the payment of fees or percentages
in any court of justice;
(Er) A license or certificate required or authorised by law to be
given for the celebration of a marriage;
(1) A consent to the marriage of a minor given by a person
authorised by law to give it;