Unauthorised Documents (Amendment) Act 1978 (NSW)

UNAUTHORISED DOCUMENTS (AMENDMENT)

ACT, 1978, No. 113

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Act No. 113, 1978.

An Act to amend the Unauthorised Documents Act, 1922, in relation to offences connected with the sending or delivering of false process documents and to increase the maximum penalties for certain offences under that Act. [Assented to, 20th December, 1978.1

Act No. 113, 1978.

Unauthorised Documents {Amendment).

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with

the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Short title. 1 . This Act may be cited as the “Unauthorised Documents

(Amendment) Act, 1978”.

Amendment

2 . The Unauthorised Documents Act, 1922, is amended-

of Act No.

6, 1922.

Sec. 3. (a) by omitting from section 3 the words “forty dollars”

(State coat	and by inserting instead the matter “$400”;
of arms.)

Sec. 4.	(b) (i) by omitting from section 4 (1) the words “likely
(Sending or

delivering	or intended to convey” wherever occurring and by
false	inserting instead the words “reasonably capable of
process.)	conveying”;

(ii)   by inserting after section 4 (1) the following sub­ section :—

( 1 a ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) , in determining whether a paper or writing is reason­ ably capable of conveying the impression that the paper or writing is an original or a copy of a document published or issued out of or by or under the authority or w'ith the sanction of any tribunal any statement in the paper or writing that or to the effect that—

(a)	it is not such a document or a copy of such a document; or
(b)	it is not intended to convey the impres­ sion that it is such a document or a copy of such a document,

Act No. 113, 1978.

Unauthorised Documents (Amendment).

shall be disregarded unless the statement is printed in a conspicuous position on the paper or writing and in a type that is more conspicuous than any other type used in the paper or writing.

(Ill) by omitting from section 4 (2) (b) the words “one

hundred dollars” and by inserting instead the matter

“ $ 1,000” . ,