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Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) - Section 63
What amounts to forgery.
                                PART  V-FORGERY

  63. (1) A person shall be deemed to forge a seal, signature, document,
register, or record, as the case may be-

  (a)  if he makes a counterfeit of the seal, or of the impression of the
       seal; or
  (b)  if he makes a counterfeit of the signature; or
  (c)  if he makes a document, register, or record, which is false, knowing it
       to be false; or
  (d)  if he, without authority, by any means whatever, alters a genuine
       document, register, or record, in any material particular,
       with intent that the counterfeit seal or impression of a seal or
       signature, or the false or altered document, register, or record, may
       be used, acted on, or accepted, as genuine, to the prejudice of the
       Commonwealth, or of any State or person, or with intent that the
       Commonwealth, or any State or person, may, in the belief that it is
       genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any act whether in
       Australia or elsewhere.

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 (3) Where a person does an act referred to in a paragraph of
     subsection (1) with intent that a computer, a machine or other device
     should respond to the counterfeit seal or impression of a seal or
     signature, or to the false or altered document, register or record, as if
     it were genuine:
        (a) to the prejudice of the Commonwealth or of any State or person; or
        (b) with the result that the Commonwealth or any State or person would
            be induced to do or refrain from doing any act, whether in
            Australia or elsewhere;
    the person shall be taken to have forged the seal, signature, document,
    register or record, as the case may be.
[Inserted by 108 of 1989]
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