Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Crimes Act 1958 - SECT 86

Suppression etc. of documents

86. Suppression etc. of documents







(1) A person who dishonestly, with a view to gain for himself or another or
with intent to cause loss to another, destroys, defaces or conceals any
valuable security, any will or other testamentary document or any original
document of or belonging to, or filed or deposited in, any court of justice or
any government department is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to
level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).

(2) A person who dishonestly, with a view to gain for himself or another or
with intent to cause loss to another, by any deception procures the execution
of a valuable security is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to level
5 imprisonment (10 years maximum) and this subsection shall apply in relation
to the making, acceptance, indorsement, alteration, cancellation or
destruction in whole or in part of a valuable security, and in relation to the
signing or sealing of any paper or other material in order that it may be made
or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security, as if that
were the execution of a valuable security.

(3) For purposes of this section deception has the same meaning as in section
81, and valuable security means any document creating, transferring,
surrendering or releasing any right to, in or over property, or authorizing
the payment of money or delivery of any property, or evidencing the creation,
transfer, surrender or release of any such right, or the payment of money or
delivery of any property, or the satisfaction of any obligation.