Immigration Act 2009

345 Improper dealings with immigration or identity documents

• (1) Every person commits an offence against this Act who, whether in or outside New Zealand, produces, surrenders, or passes off an immigration or identity document—

  • (a) as relating to the person when in fact, to the person's knowledge, the document relates to some other person; or

  • (b) knowing the document to be forged or to have been obtained fraudulently.

  (2) Every person commits an offence against this Act who, whether in or outside New Zealand, sells, hires, lends, gives, or otherwise disposes of an immigration or identity document relating to the person to any other person (the receiver) knowing that the receiver intends to do 1 or more of the following (but without necessarily knowing which of the following the receiver will do):

  • (a) produce it or pass it off as relating to the receiver or some other person; or

  • (b) sell, hire, lend, give, or otherwise dispose of it.

  (3) Every person commits an offence against this Act who, whether in or outside New Zealand, sells, hires, lends, gives, or otherwise disposes of an immigration or identity document relating to the person to any other person (the receiver) intending the receiver to do 1 or more of the following (but without necessarily intending which of the following the receiver will do):

  • (a) produce it or pass it off as relating to the receiver or some other person; or

  • (b) sell, hire, lend, give, or otherwise dispose of it.

  (4) In this section, immigration or identity document means—

  • (a) a passport; or

  • (b) a certificate of identity; or

  • (c) an endorsement in a passport of the type described in section 384; or

  • (d) evidence of a visa; or

  • (e) an invitation to apply for a visa; or

  • (f) a certificate of citizenship; or

  • (g) anything purporting to be a document described in any of paragraphs (a) to (f).

  Compare: 1987 No 74 s 142(1)(d), (e)