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Crimes
[1984 Ed.
Definition of forgery.
1913 c. 27, s. L.
1925 c. 86. s. 35.
Forgery of certain
documents with intent to defraud.
1913 c. 27. s. 2.
69. (1) For the purposes of this Part, forgery is the making of a false document in order that it may be used as genuine, and in the case of the seals and dies mentioned in this Part the counterfeiting of a seal or die, and forgery with intent to defraud or deceive, as the case may be, is punishable as in this Part provided.
(2) A document is false within the meaning of this Part if the whole or any material part thereof purports to be made by or on behalf or on account of a person who did not make it nor authorize its making; or if, though made by or on behalf or on account of the person by whom or by whose authority it purports to have been made, the time or place of making, where either is material, or in the case of a document identified by number or mark, the number or any distinguishing mark identifying the document, is falsely stated therein; and in particular a document is false-
(a) if any material alteration, whether by addition, insertion, obliteration, erasure, removal or otherwise, has been made therein;
(b) if the whole or some material part of it purports to be made by or on behalf of a fictitious or deceased person;
(c) if, though made in the name of an existing person, it is made by him or by his authority with the intention that it should pass as having been made by some person, real or fictitious, other than the person who made or authorized it.
(3) For the purpose of this Part-
(a) it is immaterial in what language a document is expressed or in what place within or without Her Majesty's dominions it is expressed to take effect;
(b) forgery of a document may be complete even if the document when forged is incomplete, or is not or does not purport to be such a document as would be binding or sufficient in law; and
(c) the crossing on any cheque, draft on a banker, post office money order, postal order, coupon or other document the crossing of which is authorized or recognized by law, shall be a material part of such cheque, draft, order, coupon or document.
(4) A document may be a false document for the purpose of this Part notwithstanding that it is not false in any such manner as is described in subsection (2). (Added, 21 of 1964, s. 3)
(11 of 1922, s. 3, incorporated)
70. (1) Forgery of the following documents, if committed with intent to defraud, shall be an offence and punishable upon indictment with imprisonment for life-
(a) any will, codicil or other testamentary document, either of a dead or of a living person, or any probate or letters of administration, whether with or without the will annexed;