Criminal Code Act 1924
280Obtaining property by false documents or dies
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280 Obtaining property by false documents or dies
*[Section 280 Amended by No. 30 of 1973, s. 13 ]*Any person who, with intent to defraud, demands, receives, or obtains or procures to be delivered, paid, or transferred to any person any property whatever upon or by virtue of –
(a) any forged document whatsoever, knowing it to be forged;
(b) any probate or letters of administration knowing the testamentary writing on which such probate or letters of administration shall have been obtained to have been forged or knowing such probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by any false oath, affirmation, or affidavit; or
(c) any forged die, knowing it to be forged –
is guilty of a crime.
Charge:
(a) Obtaining property on a forged document.
(b) Obtaining property on a document obtained by false evidence.
(c) Obtaining property on a forged die.