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ELIZABETH II

OH

DIEU

MON

DROIT

Forgery and Counterfeiting

Act 1981

1981 CHAPTER 45

An Act to make fresh provision for England and Wales and Northern Ireland with respect to forgery and kindred offences; to make fresh provision for Great Britain and Northern Ireland with respect to the counterfeiting of notes and coins and kindred offences; to amend the penalties for offences under section 63 of the Post Office Act 1953; and for connected [27th July 1981] purposes.

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E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

PART I

FORGERY AND KINDRED OFFENCES

Offences

1. A person is guilty of forgery if he makes a false instru- The offence of ment, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce forgery. somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting

it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's

prejudice.

2. It is an offence for a person to make a copy of an The offence of instrument which is, and which he knows or believes to be, a copying a false

instrument. false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use