1984 Ed.]
Crimes
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(d) any document which any magistrate is authorized or required by law to make or issue:
(e) any document which any person authorized to administer an oath under the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889, is authorized 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;
(l) any permit, certificate or similar document made or granted by or under the authority of the Governor or the head of any department of the Government.
(11 of 1922, s. 5, incorporated)
72. (1) Forgery of any document, if committed with intent to defraud, shall be an offence and punishable upon indictment with imprisonment for 3 years.
(2) Forgery of any public document, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be an offence and punishable upon indictment with imprisonment for 3 years.
(11 of 1922, s. 6, incorporated)
73. (1) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be an offence and punishable upon indictment with imprisonment for life— (Amended, 25 of 1930, s. 4)
(a) the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Privy Seal, any privy signet of Her Majesty, Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, any of Her Majesty's seals appointed by the twenty-fourth Article of the Union between England and Scotland to be kept, used and continued in
(1889 c. 10)
(1894 c. 60)
Forgery of other documents with intent to defraud or to deceive an offence.
1913 c. 27, s. 4.
Forgery of seals and dies.
1913 c. 27, s. 5.