AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1986
No. 15 of 1986
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.
Dated 29 May 1986.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
LIONEL BOWEN
Attorney-General
An Ordinance to amend the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application to the Territory
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.1
Commencement
2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1986.
The Crimes Act
3. In this Ordinance, “the Crimes Act” means the Crimes Act, 1900 of the State of New South Wales in its application to the Territory.
Interpretation
4. Section 93 of the Crimes Act is amended by inserting after the definition of “imitation firearm” the following definition:
“ ‘instrument’ means—
(a)a document, whether of a formal or informal character;
(b)a card by means of which property or credit can be obtained; and
(c)a disc, tape, sound track or other device on or in which information is recorded or stored by mechanical, electronic or other means;”.
5. After Division 3 of Part IV of the Crimes Act the following Division is inserted:
“Division 3A—Forgery and the use of forged instruments
Making of false instrument
“135A. (1) For the purpose of this Division, an instrument is false if it purports—
(a)to have been made in the form in which it is made by a person who did not in fact make it in that form;
(b)to have been made in the form in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise its making in that form;
(c)to have been made in the terms in which it is made by a person who did not in fact make it in those terms;
(d)to have been made in the terms in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise its making in those terms;
(e)to have been altered in any respect by a person who did not in fact alter it in that respect;
(f)to have been altered in any respect on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise the alteration in that respect;
(g)to have been made or altered on a date on which, or at a place at which, or otherwise in circumstances in which, it was not in fact made or altered; or
(h)to have been made or altered by an existing person who did not in fact exist.
“(2) For the purposes of this Division, a person is to be treated as making a false instrument if the person alters an instrument so as to make it false in any respect (whether or not it is false in some other respect apart from that alteration).
Act or omission to a person’s prejudice