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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 85T

Sending false postal messages

    A person shall not:

  (a)   intentionally and without a person's authority, submit, or cause to be submitted, to Australia Post as a postal message signed or to be sent by the person, a postal message that was not so signed or to be sent;

  (b)   intentionally submit, or cause to be submitted, to Australia Post a postal message signed with the name of a fictitious person;

  (c)   intentionally and without the authority of the person sending a postal message, alter the postal message; or

  (d)   intentionally write, issue or deliver a document purporting to be a postal message that has been carried by post knowing that it is not such a message.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 1 year.



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