Unauthorised Documents Act 1961 (WA)

Western Australia Unauthorised Documents Act 1961 Western Australia Unauthorised Documents Act 1961 Contents 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Interpretation 1 5. Sending, serving or printing false process an offence 1 7. Consent of Attorney General to proceedings 2 8. Other proceedings not affected 2 Notes Compilation table 3 Defined terms Western Australia Unauthorised Documents Act 1961 An Act to prohibit the issue or use of false or misleading process and other documents; and for other incidental purposes. [Long title amended: No. 59 of 1979 s. 3.]

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Unauthorised Documents Act 1961.

2. Commencement This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3. Interpretation In this Act unless the context requires otherwise — document includes any notice, claim, demand or process, any document relating to any extra‑judicial remedy, and any copy of any document; tribunal includes any court, judge, magistrate, justice or judicial or public officer, whether in or out of the State. [4. Deleted: No. 59 of 1979 s. 4.]

5. Sending, serving or printing false process an offence (1) Every person who — (a) sends, distributes or delivers to, or serves on, or causes to be sent, distributed or delivered to, or served on, any other person; or (b) prints, publishes or sells, or offers or exhibits for sale, or causes to be printed, published or sold, or offered or exhibited for sale, any paper or writing which is not a document published or issued out of or by or under the authority or with the sanction of any tribunal, but which in the opinion of the court before which any proceedings under this section are brought is intended or likely to convey to a person the impression that the paper or writing is a document published or issued out of or by or under the authority or with the sanction of any tribunal commits an offence against this Act. Penalty: $500. (2) In any proceedings under this section, if any person is named on any paper or writing mentioned in this section in such manner as to imply that he is the printer, publisher, seller or sender of the same, that person shall prima facie be deemed to be the person who printed, published, sold or sent that paper or writing. [Section 5 amended: No. 59 of 1979 s. 5.] [6. Deleted: No. 9 of 2023 s. 154.]