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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
HONG KONG.
No. 33 OF 1935.
I assent.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
L.S.
Officer Administering the Government.
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6th September, 1935.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the falsification of documents and to amend the Forgery Ordinance, 1922.
[6th September, 1935.]
Short title.
Extension
of Ordinance
No. 3 of 1885.
46 & 47 Vict.
c. 55, s. 17.
cf. No. 11 of 1922, s. 3 (3) (c).
Falsification
of accounts
with intent to defraud.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 24, s. 1.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, follows:
as
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935.
2. Sections 76 to 82, both inclusive, of the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, shall extend to any document issued by a customer of any banker, and intended to enable any person or body corporate to obtain payment from such banker of the sum mentioned in such document, and shall so extend in like manner as if the said document were a cheque Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to render any such document a negotiable instru- ment.
For the purposes of this section the Colonial Treasurer shall be deemed to be a banker, and the public officers drawing on him shall be deemed customers.
3. Every person who, being a clerk or servant or employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, with intent to defraud-
(a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, paper, writing, valuable security or account belonging to or in the possession or power of his master or employer or received by him for or in the name or on behalf of his master or employer; or
(b) makes or concurs in making any false entry, or omits, alters or concurs in omitting or altering any material particular in any such book or any document or account,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.
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