CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 318
Making or using false official instrument to pervert the course of justice
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 318
Making or using false official instrument to pervert the course of justice
(1) In this section--
"official instrument" means an instrument of a kind that is made or issued by
a person in his or her capacity as a public officer or by a judicial tribunal .
(2) A person who makes a false official instrument , or who makes a copy of an
instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument , with the
intention that-- (a) he or she or another person will use it to induce another
person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a copy of
a genuine official instrument , and (b) that acceptance will
pervert the course of justice , is liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (3) A
person who uses an instrument which the person knows to be a false
official instrument , or who uses a copy of an instrument which the person
knows to be a false official instrument , with the intention-- (a) of inducing
another person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a
copy of a genuine official instrument , and (b) of thereby perverting the
course of justice, is liable to imprisonment for 14 years. (4) Section 250
applies to the interpretation of this section.
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