Forgery

Question 1

Making false document with intent to obtain property etc.

Answer 1

Crimes Act 1961, Section 256(1)
10 years

• Makes a false document
• with the intention of using it
• to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration.

Question 2

Making false document with intent that it be used or acted upon

Answer 2

Crimes Act 1961, Section 256(2)
3 years

• Makes a false document
• knowing it to be false
• with the intent that it in any way be used or acted upon, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, as genuine.

Question 3

Using forged documents

Answer 3

Crimes Act 1961, Section 257(1)
10 years

• Knowing a document to be forged,
• (a) uses the document to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration; or
• (b) uses, deals with, or acts upon the document as if it were genuine; or
• (c) causes any other person to use, deal with, or act upon it as if it were genuine.

Question 4

Altering, concealing, destroying, or reporoducing documents with intent to deceive

Answer 4

Crimes Act 1961, Section 258(1)
10 years

• With intent to obtain by deception
• any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration, or to cause loss to any other person,
• (a) alters, concals, or destroys any document, or causes any document to be altered, concealed, or destroyed; or
• (b) makes a document or causes a document to be made that is, in whole or in part, a reproduction of any other document.

Question 5

Using altered or reproduced document with intent to deceive

Answer 5

Crimes Act 1961, Section 259(1)
10 years

• Knowing any document to have been made or altered in the manner and with the intent referred to in section 258
• with intent to obtain by deception
• any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration, or to cause loss to any other person,
• (a) uses or deals with, or acts upon, the document; or
• (b) causes any other person to use or deal with, or act upon, the document.