Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who assumes to act in the office of justice of the peace or commissioner for declarations that the person does not hold commits an offence against this Act.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) In any proceedings evidence that a person caused to appear or allowed to remain immediately beneath, beside or close to the person's signature on an instrument or document an imprint or a mark that under section 31 is evidence that the person duly signed the instrument or document in the performance of the functions of the office indicated by the imprint or mark, is evidence, if the person did not hold the office, that the person assumed to act in the office.