THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.

In this section, "valuable security" has the same mean- Ordinance ing as in the Larceny Ordinance, 1935.

No. 32 of 1935.

contract for

c. 29, s. 1.

4. Every person, whether principal, broker or agent, Making false who wilfully inserts, in any contract, agreement or token of entry in sale and purchase made or entered into for the sale or sale of transfer, or purporting to be for the sale or transfer, shares. of any share, stock or other interest in the capital 30 & 31 Vict. stock of any bank, body corporate, company or society, established by charter or by, under or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, issuing shares or stock transferable by any deed or written instrument, any false entry of the numbers by which the same are distinguished on the registers or books of such company, or any names other than those of the persons in whose name such shares, stock or interest stand as registered proprietors thereof in the books of such company, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

5. Every person who, with intent to defraud-

Making false entry in bank book,

etc.

c. 98, s. 5.

(1) makes any false entry or alters any word or figure in any of the books of account kept at any bank in this Colony or by any body corporate, company or society, 24 & 25 Vict. established by charter or by, under, or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, in which books the accounts of the owners of any money deposited in such bank or of any stock of any such body corporate are entered and kept; or

(2) in any manner falsifies any of the accounts of any such owners in any of the said books; or

(3) makes any transfer of any share or interest in any such deposit or stock in the name of any person not being the true and lawful owner of such share or interest,

shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for life.

false

6. Every person who, being a clerk or servant of, or Bank clerk other person employed or entrusted by, any bank in this making out Colony or any such body corporate, company or society as dividend is mentioned in section 5, with intent to defraud makes out warrant. or delivers any dividend warrant, or warrant for payment 24 & 25 Vict. of any interest or money for a greater or less amount than c. 98, s. 6. the amount to which the person on whose behalf such warrant is made out is entitled, shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.

7. Every person who-

(1) being the clerk of any court or other officer having the custody of the records of any court, or being the deputy of any such clerk or officer, utters

any false certificate of any record knowing the same to be false; or

copy or

Uttering, delivering or acting under

false copy

or certificate

of record or process of court.

24 & 25 Vict.

(2) delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any c. 98, s. 28. paper falsely purporting to be any process of court or a copy thereof, or to be any judgment, decree or order of any court, or a copy thereof, knowing the same to be false; or

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