Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981
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(f) passports and documents which can be used instead of
passports;
(g) cheques;
(h) travellers' cheques;
(j) cheque cards;
(k) credit cards;
(1) certified copies relating to an entry in a register of births, adoptions, marriages or deaths and issued by the Registrar General, the Registrar General for Nor- thern Ireland, a registration officer or a person lawfully authorised to register marriages; and
(m) certificates relating to entries in such registers.
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(6) In subsection (5) (e) above "share certificate means an instrument entitling or evidencing the title of a person to a share or interest-
(a) in any public stock, annuity, fund or debt of any government or state, including a state which forms part of another state; or
(b) in any stock, fund or debt of a body (whether corporate or unincorporated) established in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
PART I
Penalties etc.
6.-(1) A person guilty of an offence under this Part of this Penalties for Act shall be liable on summary conviction—
(a) to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or (b) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months;
or
(c) to both.
(2) A person guilty of an offence to which this subsection applies shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding ten years.
(3) The offences to which subsection (2) above applies are offences under the following provisions of this Part of this Act-
(a) section 1;
(b) section 2;
offences under Part I.
(c) section 3;
(d) section 4;
(e) section 5(1); and
(f) section 5(3).
(4) A person guilty of an offence under section 5(2) or (4) above shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding two years.
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