Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN PASSPORTS ACT 2005 - SECT 37

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person:

  (i)   brings a document into a country; or

  (ii)   takes a document out of a country; or

  (iii)   sends a document to or from a country; and

  (b)   the person knows that:

  (i)   the document is a false Australian travel document; or

  (ii)   the document is an Australian travel document that was not issued to the person.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Note:   The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   (2). See subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .