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Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) - Section 250
Forging and uttering defined.
           Part 5-FORGERY AND FALSE INSTRUMENT OFFENCES
                      CHAPTER 1-Forgery

Declaratory and general.
250. For the purposes of this Act:
"Forging" means the counterfeiting, or altering in any particular, by
whatsoever means effected, with intent to defraud, of an instrument, or
document, or of some signature, or other matter, or thing, or of any
attestation, or signature of a witness, whether by law required or not to any
instrument, document, or matter, the forging of which is punishable under
this Act.
"Utter or uttering" wherever used herein with respect to any forged
instrument, document, signature, matter, or thing, or any instrument,
document, or matter with a forged attestation or signature of a witness
thereto, means that the person uttered, offered, disposed of, or put off, the
same with intent to defraud, knowing it to be forged.
[Modified by No. 71 of 1989 Sch 1 (4)]


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