Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not, without the consent, in writing, of an authorized person, design, make, print or distribute:
(a) a business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, hand - bill, poster or other material that so resembles current paper money or an Australian prescribed security as to be capable of misleading a person into believing it is that current paper money or that Australian prescribed security; or
(b) a newspaper, journal, magazine, notice, placard, circular, hand - bill, poster, business or professional card or other material that includes a representation of current paper money or an Australian prescribed security that is, when detached from the newspaper, journal, magazine, notice, placard, circular, hand - bill, poster, business or professional card or other material in which it is included, capable of misleading a person into believing that it is that current paper money or that Australian prescribed security.
Penalty:
(a) in the case of a person, not being a body corporate-- imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units , or both; or
(b) in the case of a person, being a body corporate-- 100 penalty units .
(2) Where an authorized person gives a consent for the purposes of subsection ( 1), he or she may give that consent either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he or she thinks appropriate.
(3) In this section, Australian prescribed security does not include a prescribed security, being a bond, debenture, stock, stock certificate, treasury bill or other like security, or a coupon, warrant or document for the payment of money in respect of such a security, issued by, or with the authority of, the government of a country other than Australia.