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261: Counterfeiting public seals
or “Making fake official seals or stamps, or using them when you know they're not real, is against the law.”
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“Making fake stamps or seals used by companies or using them when you know they're not real is against the law.”

If you make or use fake seals or stamps of companies or other groups, you can get in trouble with the law. You’re not allowed to create a fake version of any seal or stamp used by a company or other group in New Zealand or another country. This also includes making fake impressions of these seals or stamps. If you use a seal, stamp, or impression that you know is fake, that’s also against the law. These rules don’t apply to the seals mentioned in section 261, which talks about different kinds of seals. If you break these rules, you could go to prison for up to 5 years.

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or “Having fake money is against the law and can get you in big trouble.”
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Part 10 Crimes against rights of property
Forgery and counterfeiting

262Counterfeiting corporate seals

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years who—

  2. unlawfully makes or counterfeits—
    1. any seal or stamp used in New Zealand or any other country by any company or other corporate body (not being a body to which section 261 applies), or by any other person; or
      1. the impression of any such seal or stamp; or
      2. uses any such seal, stamp, or impression, knowing it to be counterfeit.

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        Notes
        • Section 262: replaced, on , by section 15 of the Crimes Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 39).