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FORGERY.
[No. 4.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Forgery Ordinance, 1865.
Forgery of Her Majesty's Seals, etc.
2. Every person who--
(1.) forges or counterfeits, or utters, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Privy Seal, any Privy Signet of Her Majesty, Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, any of Her Majesty's Seals appointed by the twenty-fourth Article of the Union between England and Scotland to be kept, used, and continued in Scotland, the Great Seal of Ireland, the Privy Seal of Ireland, or the Public Seal of this Colony; or
(2.) forges or counterfeits the stamp or impression of any of the seals aforesaid; or
(3.) utters any document or instrument whatsoever having thereon or affixed thereto the stamp or impression of any such forged or counterfeited seal, knowing the same to be the stamp or impression of such forged or counterfeited seal, or any forged or counterfeited stamp or impression made or apparently intended to resemble the stamp or impression of any of the seals aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or
(4.) forges or alters, or utters, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any document or instrument having any of the said stamps or impressions thereon or affixed thereto,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
3. Every person who--
(1.) forges or counterfeits, or utters, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, the seal of any public officer, office, or department in this Colony, or the seal of any body corporate in this Colony;
(2.) forges or counterfeits the stamp or impression of any such seal; or
(3.) utters any document or instrument whatsoever having thereon or affixed thereto the stamp or impression of any such forged or counterfeited seal, knowing the same to be the stamp or impression of such forged or counterfeited seal, or any forged or counterfeited stamp or impression made or apparently intended to resemble the stamp or impression of any of the seals aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or
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Short title.
Forging Great or Public Seal, etc.,
Seal of the 24 & 25 Vict. Colony.
c. 98 s. 1.
Forging seal officer or of public of company.