Making false
entry in bank book, etc.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 5.
Bank clerk making out false dividend
warrant.
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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-
(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, 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.
6. Every person who, being a clerk or servant of, or other person employed or entrusted by, any bank in this Colony or any such body corporate, company or society as is mentioned in section 5, with intent to defraud makes out 24 & 25 Vict. or delivers any dividend warrant, or warrant for payment of any interest or money for a greater or less amount than 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.
c. 98, s. 6.
Uttering, delivering or
acting under
false copy
7. Every person who-
(1) being the clerk of any court or other officer having or certificate the custody of the records of any court, or being the deputy of record or of any such clerk or officer, utters any false copy or
certificate of any record knowing the same to be false; or
process of
court.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 28.
Destruction of register of births, etc.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 36.
(2) delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any 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
(3) acts or professes to act under any such false process, knowing the same to be false,
shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.
8. Every person who-
(1) unlawfully destroys, defaces or injures or causes or permits to be destroyed, defaced or injured, any register of births, baptismus, marriages, deaths or burials which is by law authorised or required to be kept in this Colony, or any part of such register, or any certified copy of any such register, or any part thereof, or
(2) knowingly and unlawfully inserts or causes or permits to be inserted in any such register, or in any certified copy thereof, any false entry of any matter relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death or burial; or