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7.

Section 16 of the Ordinance deals with matters which are also

dealt with under rules 5 and 7 of the rules contained in the First

joellyn Schedule to the Indictments Ordinance, 1919, but the clause is of

wider extent than those rules, and it is therefore included.

The

same position exists in England with regard to the indictment rules

in force there and the corresponding section in the English Forgery

Act of 1913.

8. In the following casea. it was decided not to repeal or amend

sections in existing Ordinances dealing with forgery and allied

offences.

24.

9. Ordinance 7o. 1 of 1844, *.

This section deals with

matters other than forgery, and it would be difficult to disen-

tangle the forgery provisions. Besides, it provides a higher

maximum penalty than the sub-section in the Ordinance under which

the forgery of Land office records would otherwise fall.

10.

The provisions

Ordinance No. 3 of 1858, ss. 46 and 47.

relating to passes have long been obsolete, and in any case the

amendment of this Ordinance is under consideration.

11.

Ordinance No. 4 of 1890, 8.3. It seemed desirable not to

make the Ordinance incomplete by extracting one particular pro-

vision. Besides, forgery of a trade mark is specially defined

in section 4 of the Ordinance, and that section provides for the

burden of proof in a particular case. The corresponding sec-

tion in the English Act has not been aiended by the "orgery Act,

1913.

12. Ordinance No. 3 of 1894, 8.5. This section deale with

other offences relating to telegrams as well as to forgery of

telegrams. The corresponding section in the English Act has not-

been repealed.