South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts58—Penalty for false certificate of sending message
Any justice or notary public who wilfully and falsely endorses upon any
original document, delivered at a telegraph station for the purpose of being
transmitted under the provisions of this Act, a certificate that a true copy
thereof has been sent under this Act, or who by telegraph wilfully and falsely
informs any person to whom such has been so sent that a certificate under the
provisions of this Act has been endorsed thereon, shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding two hundred dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by the
first person who shall, for his own benefit and without collusion, sue for the
same.