South Australian Current Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1886 - SECT 229

229—Offences

If a person—

            (a)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging, or fraudulently affixes or procures to be affixed or assists in affixing, the seal of the Registrar-General, or an impression or part of an impression of the seal, to an instrument or other document; or

            (b)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging the name, signature or handwriting of—

                  (i)         the Registrar-General; or

                  (ii)         a person engaged in the administration of this Act in any case where the person is by this Act expressly or impliedly authorised to affix his or her signature; or

            (c)         fraudulently stamps or causes to be stamped an instrument or other document with the seal of the Registrar-General or with a seal purporting to be the seal of the Registrar-General; or

            (d)         forges or procures to be forged or assists in forging the name, signature or handwriting of a person to an instrument or other document that is under this Act expressly or impliedly authorised to be signed, certified or executed by the person; or

            (e)         uses, with an intention to defraud a person—

                  (i)         a document on which an impression or part of the impression of a seal of the Registrar-General has been forged or fraudulently affixed knowing that the seal is forged or fraudulently affixed; or

                  (ii)         a document the signature to which has been forged knowing that the signature has been forged,

the person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $50 000 or imprisonment for 10 years.