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StatuteCrimes Act 1914

Section 85T — Crimes Act 1914: Sending false postal messages

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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.

Official source: Federal Register of Legislation

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