New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 299

299 Interpretation

(1) In this Division:
"instrument" means:

(a) any document, whether of a formal or informal character, or

(b) a card by means of which property or credit can be obtained, or

(c) a disc, tape, sound track or other device on or in which information is recorded or stored by mechanical, electronic or other means.

(2) For the purposes 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, or

(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, or

(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, or

(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, or

(e) to have been altered in any respect by a person who did not in fact alter it in that respect, or

(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, or

(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.