Liabilities

Question 1

Dishonestly taking or using a document

Answer 1

S228(1) CA 1961

Everyone who with intent to obtain nay property, service, pecuniary advantage or valuable consideration dishonestly and without claim of right

(a) takes or obtains any document or
(b) uses or attempts to use any document

Question 2

Obtaining or causing loss by deception

Answer 2

S240(1)(a) CA 1961

Every one who, by any deception and without claim of right,—
(a)
obtains ownership or possession of, or control over, any property, or any privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration, directly or indirectly; or
(b)
in incurring any debt or liability, obtains credit; or
(c)
induces or causes any other person to deliver over, execute, make, accept, endorse, destroy, or alter any document or thing capable of being used to derive a pecuniary advantage; or
(d)
causes loss to any other person.

Question 3

Forgery

1

Answer 3

S256(1) CA 1961

Everyone who makes a false document with the intention of using it to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage or valuable consideration

Question 4

Forgery

(2)`

Answer 4

S256(2) CA 1961

Everyone who makes a false document knowing it to be false with the intent that it in any way be used or acted upon, whether in NZ or elsewhere as genuine

Question 5

Using forged documents

a

Answer 5

S257(1)(a) CA 1961

Everyone who knowing a document to be forged uses the document to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit or valuable consideration

Question 6

Using forged documents

b

Answer 6

S257(1)(b) CA 1961

Everyone who knowing a document to be forged uses, deals with or acts upon the document as if it were genuine

Question 7

Using forged documents

c

Answer 7

S257(1)(c) CA 1961

Everyone who knowing a document to be forged causes any other person to use, deal with or act upon it as if it were genuine

Question 8

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

Answer 8

S258(1) CA 1961

Everyone who with intent to obtain by deception any proeprty, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit or valuable consideration, or to cause loss to any other person

(a) alters, conceal or destroys any document or causes any document to be altered, concealed or destroyed
(b) makes a document or causes a document to be made that is, in a whole or in part, a reproduction of any other document

Question 9

Using altered or reproduced documents with intent to deceive

Answer 9

S259(1)(a) CA 1961

Every one who, 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 uses, or deals with, or acts upon, the document

Question 10

Using altered or reproduced documents with intent to deceive

Answer 10

S259(1)(a) CA 1961

Every one who, 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 causes any person to use or deal with, or act upon, the document.

Question 11

Accessing computer system for dishonest purpose

1

Answer 11

S249(1) CA 1961

Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who, directly or indirectly, accesses any computer system and thereby, dishonestly or by deception, and without claim of right,—
(a)
obtains any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration; or
(b)
causes loss to any other person.

Question 12

Accessing computer system for dishonest purpose

2

Answer 12

S249(2) CA 1961

Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years who, directly or indirectly, accesses any computer system with intent, dishonestly or by deception, and without claim of right,—
(a)
to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration; or
(b)
to cause loss to any other person.

Question 13

Damaging or interfering with computer system

1

Answer 13

S250(1) CA 1961

Every one who intentionally or recklessly destroys, damages, or alters any computer system if he or she knows or ought to know that danger to life is likely to result.

Question 14

Damaging or interfering with computer system

2

Answer 14

S250(2) CA 1961

Every one who intentionally or recklessly, and without authorisation, knowing that he or she is not authorised, or being reckless as to whether or not he or she is authorised,—

(a)
damages, deletes, modifies, or otherwise interferes with or impairs any data or software in any computer system; or

(b)
causes any data or software in any computer system to be damaged, deleted, modified, or otherwise interfered with or impaired; or

(c)
causes any computer system to—
(i)
fail; or
(ii)
deny service to any authorised users.

Question 15

Accessing computer system without authorisation

Answer 15

S252(1) CA 1961

Every one who intentionally accesses, directly or indirectly, any computer system without authorisation, knowing that he or she is not authorised to access that computer system, or being reckless as to whether or not he or she is authorised to access that computer system.