FORGERY.
No. 4 of 1865.
85
purports to be made or has been made, and in whatever language the same or any part thereof is expressed, every such person, and every person aiding, abetting, or counselling such person, shall be deemed to be an offender within the meaning of this Ordinance, and shall be punishable thereby in the same manner as if the writing or matter had purported to be made or had been made in this Colony.
(2) If any person in this Colony forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any bill of exchange, or any promissory note for the payment of money, or any indorsement on or assignment of any bill of exchange or promissory note for the payment of money, or any acceptance of any bill of exchange, or any undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request for the payment of money or for the delivery or transfer of any goods or security, or any deed, bond, or writing obligatory for the payment of money (whether such deed, bond, or writing obligatory is made only for the payment of money or for the payment of money together with some other purpose), or any indorsement on or assignment of any such undertaking, warrant, order, authority, request, deed, bond, or writing obligatory, in whatsoever place or country out of this Colony, whether in His Majesty's dominions or not, the money payable or secured by such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority, request, deed, bond, or writing obligatory is or purports to be payable, and in whatever language the same respectively or any part thereof is expressed, and whether such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request is or is not under seal, every such person, and every person aiding, abetting, or counselling such person, shall be deemed to be an offender within the meaning of this Ordinance, and shall be punishable thereby in the same manner as if the money had been payable or had purported to be payable in this Colony.
Supplemental provisions.
of instrument in indictment
42. In any indictment for forging, altering, offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off any instrument, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same is usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile thereof, or otherwise describing the same or the value thereof.
[24 & 25 Vict. c. 98 s. 42.]