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CRIMES ACT 1914

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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 85T

85T Sending false postal messages
A person shall not:
(a)
intentionally and without a person's authority, submit, or cause to be submitted, to Australia Post as a postal message signed or to be sent by the person, a postal message that was not so signed or to be sent;
(b)
intentionally submit, or cause to be submitted, to Australia Post a postal message signed with the name of a fictitious person;
(c)
intentionally and without the authority of the person sending a postal message, alter the postal message; or
(d)
intentionally write, issue or deliver a document purporting to be a postal message that has been carried by post knowing that it is not such a message.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year.

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