South Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 144A

144A—Interpretation

In this Part—

"criminal purpose" means the purpose of committing, or facilitating the commission of, an offence;

"digital signature" means encrypted electronic or computer data intended for the exclusive use of a particular person as a means of identifying himself or herself as the sender of an electronic communication;

"electronic communication" means a communication transmitted in the form of electronic or computer data;

"false identity"—a person assumes a false identity if the person pretends to be, or passes himself or herself off as, some other person;

The other person may be—

            (a)         living or dead;

            (b)         real or fictional;

            (c)         natural or corporate.

"personal identification information"—a person's personal identification information is information used to identify the person, and includes—

            (a)         in the case of a natural person—

                  (i)         information about the person such as his or her name, address, date or place of birth, marital status, relatives and so on;

                  (ii)         the person's driver's licence or driver's licence number;

                  (iii)         the person's passport or passport number;

                  (iv)         biometric data relating to the person;

                  (v)         the person's voice print;

                  (vi)         the person's credit or debit card, its number, and data stored or encrypted on it;

                  (vii)         any means commonly used by the person to identify himself or herself (including a digital signature);

                  (viii)         a series of numbers or letters (or a combination of both) intended for use as a means of personal identification;

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—

                  (i)         its name;

                  (ii)         its ABN;

                  (iii)         the number of any bank account established in the body corporate's name or of any credit card issued to the body corporate;

"prohibited material" means anything (including personal identification information) that enables a person to assume a false identity or to exercise a right of ownership that belongs to someone else to funds, credit, information or any other financial or non-financial benefit;

"serious criminal offence" means—

            (a)         an indictable offence; or

            (b)         an offence prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this definition;

"voice print" means computer data recording the unique characteristics of a person's voice.