22Possessing, making or providing false foreign travel documents

#### 22 Possessing, making or providing false foreign travel documents (1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person has possession or control of a document; and (b) the person knows that the document is a false foreign travel document. Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both. (2) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person: (i) makes a false foreign travel document; or (ii) provides a false foreign travel document to another person; and (b) the person does so with the intention that the false foreign travel document may be used, acted on or accepted as if it were a passport or document of identity issued by or on behalf of the government of a foreign country. Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both. (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse. > Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code. (4) In this section: > false foreign travel document: (a) means a document: (i) that purports to be a passport issued by or on behalf of the government of a foreign country but that was not issued by or on behalf of that government; or (ii) that purports to be a document of identity issued for travel purposes by or on behalf of the government of a foreign country for the purposes of travel but that was not issued by or on behalf of that government; and (b) includes a foreign travel document that has been altered by a person who is not authorised to alter that foreign travel document. > make, in relation to a false foreign travel document, includes alter a document so as to make it a false document (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration).