FORGERY.
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any false entry of any matter relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death, or burial ; or
(4) knowingly and unlawfully gives any false certificate relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death, or burial; or
(5) certifies any writing to be a copy of or extract from any such register, knowing such writing, or the part of such register whereof such copy or extract is so given, to be false in any material particular; or
(6) forges or counterfeits the seal of or belonging to any register office or burial board; or
(7) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any such register, entry, certified copy, certificate, or seal, knowing the same to be false, forged, or altered; or
(8) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any copy of any entry in any such register, knowing such entry to be false, forged, or altered,
shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
38. Every person who-
Making false entry in
(1) knowingly and wilfully inserts, or causes or permits to be inserted, in any register directed or required by law to be transmitted to any registrar or other officer any false entry of any matter relating to any baptism, marriage, or burial; or
(2) forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid ; or
(3) knowingly and wilfully signs or verifies any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which copy is false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false; or
(4) unlawfully destroys, defaces, or injures, or for any fraudulent purpose takes from its place of deposit or conceals, any such copy of any register,
shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
Demanding property upon forged instrument.
register sent [24 & 25 Vict. c. 98 s. 37.]
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39. Every person who, with intent to defraud, demands, receives, or obtains, or causes or procures to be delivered or paid to any person upon forged instrument.
*As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 [ib. s. 38.] and the Final Revision Ordinance 1912.