Criminal Asset Recovery Order, 2012 · s 143

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s 143Falsification, concealment and destruction of document etc.

A person, with intent to deceive, in respect of a document to be produced or submitted under any provision of this Order, who makes or causes to be made a false entry, omits to make, or causes to be omitted, any entry, or alters, abstracts, conceals or destroys, or causes to be altered, abstracted, concealed or destroyed, any entry, forges a document, or makes use of or holds in his possession a false document, purporting to be a valid document, alters any entry made in any document, or issues or uses a document which is false or incorrect, wholly or partially, or misleading is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding

$1,000 for each day during which the offence continues after conviction.