Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 349

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person makes or adapts a device, material or other thing—

        (a)     knowing that the thing is designed or adapted for making a false document (whether or not it is designed or adapted for another purpose); and

        (b)     with the intention that the person or someone else will use the thing to commit forgery.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units, imprisonment for 10 years or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person knows that a device, material or other thing is designed or adapted for making a false document (whether or not it is designed or adapted for another purpose); and

        (b)     the person has the device, material or other thing in the person's possession with the intention that the person or someone else will use it to commit forgery.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units, imprisonment for 10 years or both.

    (3)     A person commits an offence if the person makes or adapts a device, material or other thing knowing that it is designed or adapted for making a false document (whether or not it is designed or adapted for another purpose).

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (4)     A person commits an offence if the person has in the person's possession a device, material or other thing knowing that it is designed or adapted for making a false document (whether or not it is designed or adapted for another purpose).

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (5)     Subsection (4) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.