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Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981

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(f) passports and documents which can be used instead of

passports;

(g) cheques;

(h) travellers' cheques;

(j) cheque cards;

(k) credit cards;

(1) certified copies relating to an entry in a register of births, adoptions, marriages or deaths and issued by the Registrar General, the Registrar General for Nor- thern Ireland, a registration officer or a person lawfully authorised to register marriages; and

(m) certificates relating to entries in such registers.

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(6) In subsection (5) (e) above "share certificate means an instrument entitling or evidencing the title of a person to a share or interest-

(a) in any public stock, annuity, fund or debt of any government or state, including a state which forms part of another state; or

(b) in any stock, fund or debt of a body (whether corporate or unincorporated) established in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

PART I

Penalties etc.

6.-(1) A person guilty of an offence under this Part of this Penalties for Act shall be liable on summary conviction—

(a) to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or (b) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months;

or

(c) to both.

(2) A person guilty of an offence to which this subsection applies shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding ten years.

(3) The offences to which subsection (2) above applies are offences under the following provisions of this Part of this Act-

(a) section 1;

(b) section 2;

offences under Part I.

(c) section 3;

(d) section 4;

(e) section 5(1); and

(f) section 5(3).

(4) A person guilty of an offence under section 5(2) or (4) above shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding two years.

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