2658
No. 11 of 1922.
FORGERY.
[s. 5 contd.]
(d) any wrapper or label provided by or under the authority of the Governor or the head of any department of the Government of the Colony.
(3) Forgery of the following documents, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony, and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years:-
(a) any official document whatsoever of or belonging to any court of justice, or made or issued by any judge, magistrate, officer, or clerk of any such court;
(b) any register or book kept under the provisions of any law in or under the authority of any court of justice;
(c) any certificate, office copy, or certified copy of any such document, register, or book or of any part thereof.
(d) any document which any magistrate is authorised or required by law to make or issue;
(e) any document which any person authorised to administer an oath under the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889, is authorised or required by law to make or issue;
(f) any document made or issued by an officer of state or law officer of the Crown, or any document upon which, by the law or usage at the time in force, any court of justice or any officer might act;
(g) any document or copy of a document used or intended to be used in evidence in any court of record, or any document which is made evidence by law;
(h) any certificate required by any enactment for the celebration of marriage;
(i) any licence for the celebration of marriage which may be given by law;
(j) any certificate, declaration, or order under any enactment relating to the registration of births or deaths;
(k) any register book, builder's certificate, surveyor's certificate, certificate of registry, declaration, bill of sale, instrument of mortgage, or certificate of mortgage or sale under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or any entry or indorsement required by the said Part of the said Act to be made in or on any of those documents;
c. 60.