New section 18
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Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this section for not finding sureties for any term exceeding one year.
13. The Forgery Ordinance, 1922, is amended by the to Ordinance addition of the following section at the end thereof :-
No. 11 of 1922.
Punishment
of forgeries not other-
18. Every felony punishable in England under section 48 of the Act 24 and 25 Victoria, chapter 98, shall, if wise punish committed in this Colony, and not otherwise punishable under this or any other Ordinance for the time being in force, be punishable with imprisonment for life.
able under
this Ordin-
ance.
Amendment
of Form
No. 21 in
Appendix to First Schedule
14. Form No. 21 in the Appendix to the First Schedule to the Indictments Ordinance, 1919, is amended by the repeal of the words and figures "section 74 of the Larceny Ordinance, 1865" and by the substitution therefor of the to Ordinance words and figures "section 3 of the Falsification of
Documents Ordinance, 1935”.
No. 17 of
1919.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865.
15. The Corrupt Practices (Documentary) Ordinance, 1865, is repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance collects in one enactment the local provisions dealing with the falsification of documents which are not included in the Forgery Ordinance, 1922, or in particular Ordinances like the Post Office Ordinance, No. 7 of 1926, (s. 32 (1) ()--imitation stamps), or the Medical Registration Ordinance, No. 1 of 1884, (s. 16-false particulars for registration), and attempts, by the addition of sections 2 and 4, to bring the law of the Colony on this subject as nearly as possible into line with the law of England.
2. It reproduces, with slight amendments, sections 7, 8, 30, 37, 38, 44 and 50 of the Corrupt Practices (Documentary) Ordinance, No. 4 of 1865, which it repeals, and section 74 of the Larceny Ordinance, No 5 of 1865, repealed by the Larceny Ordinance, 1935.
3. New section 2 of this Ordinance is based on section 17 of the Revenue Act, 1883, (46 & 47 Vict. c. 55), and new section 4 on the latter part of section 1 of the Banking Companies' (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 29).
4. Section 48 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 has not been reproduced in this Ordinance, and although the instances in which this section might be invoked are rare, its provisions have been given effect to by a new section 18, added by this Ordinance to the Forgery Ordinance, 1922, to which it is considered those provisions more properly belong.
5. The attached Table of Correspondence shows in detail the variations between the provisions of this Ordinance and those of the English Acts on which it is based.
C. G. ALABASTER,
May, 1935.
Attorney General,
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