Forgery.
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seals and
7. (1) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for life-
(a) the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Privy Seal, any privy signet of His Majesty, His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, any of His 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 the Colony;
(b) the seal of any court of record.
(2) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for fourteen years-
(a) the seal of any register office relating to births, baptisms, marriages or deaths;
(b) the seal of or belonging to any office for the registry of deeds or titles to lands.
(3) Forgery, committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for seven years, if committed in respect of the seal of any court of justice other than a court of record.
(4) Forgery of the following seals or dies, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for seven years-
(a) any seal or die provided, made or used by or under the authority of the Government of any part of His Majesty's dominions, the Government of any foreign country, or the Governor or the head of any department of the Government of the Colony;
(b) any seal or die provided, made or used by any person, firm or company for the purpose of the affairs of such person, firm or company.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 5.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 6.
8. (1) Any person who utters any forged document, seal or die shall be guilty of an offence of the like degree (whether felony or misdemeanor) and on conviction thereof shall be liable to the same punishment as if he himself had forged the document, seal or die.
(2) A person utters a forged document, seal or die, who, knowing the same to be forged, and with either of
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