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

164 ss, 504,505 CRIMINAL CODE
used signifies or implies, or may reasonably induce any per-
son to believe, contrary to the fact, that the article is such as
is designated by the trade mark;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for two years, and to be fined at the discretion ofthe Court.
And every thing which he has in his possession to which the trade
mark or counterfeit trade mark has been so applied, and every instru-
ment which he has in his possession by means of which any such mark
has been so applied, or which is intended for applying any such mark, is
forfeited to Her Majesty.
The term “trade mark” includes any word or mark of any kind whatever,
which is lawfully used by any person to denote that any article is
of his manufacture, workmanship, production, or merchandise, or is a
thing of a peculiar or ~art~cular description made or sold by him.
The term “~ounterfeit” includes any imitation of a genuine mark
which is not genuine and which resembles the genuine mark.
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G wingly, and wit nt to deceive or
defraud, or to enable another person to deceive or defraud, utters to any
person a document which purports to be a copy of the memorandum or
articles of association or other constitution of a corporation or joint
stock company, or of the rules or by-laws of any corporation or society,
constituted under the authority of any Statute, but is not a true copy there-
of, or a document which purports to be a list of the members of any such
corporation, company, or society, but is not a true list of such members,
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
CHAPTER LFORGERY AND LIKE OFFENCES ~ U ~ ~ S H A ON ~ SUMMARY
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CONVICTION
se Te s. Any person who-
(1) Knowingly and without the authority of the pretended sender,
sends or delivers, or causes to be sent or delivered, to any
person employed by or under the Post and Telegraph Department,
for the purpose of being transmitted as a telegram,
a message or writing purporting to be sent by another person;
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(2) Signs a telegram in the name of another person without that
person’s authority, or in the name of a fictitious person; or
(3) Wilfully alters a telegram without the authority of the sender;
or
(4) Writes, issues, or delivers, as and for a telegram received
through a telegraph office, a writing purporting to be a
telegram so received, and which is not a telegram so received;
is guilty of an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
with hard labour for twelve months. and to a fine of two hundred
doljars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimai
Currency Act of 1965.