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[No. 16-23.5.35.-3.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the falsification of documents and to amend the Forgery Ordinance, 1922.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Falsification of Short title. Documents Ordinance, 1935.

of Ordinance

c. 55, s. 17.

2. Sections 76 to 82, both inclusive, of the Bills of Extension Exchange Ordinance, 1885, shall extend to any document No. 3 of issued by a customer of any banker, and intended to enable 1885. any person or body corporate to obtain payment from such 46 & 47 Vict. banker of the sum mentioned in such document, and shall so extend in like manner as if the said document were a

cf. No. 11 of 1922, s. 3 cheque Provided that nothing in this section shall be (3) (c).

: deemed to render any such document a negotiable instru-

ment.

For the purposes of this section the Colonial Treasurer shall be deemed to be a banker, and the public officers drawing on him shall be deemed customers.

of accounts

3. Every person who, being a clerk or servant or Falsification employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, with intent with intent to defraud--

to defraud.

38 & 39 Vict.

(a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, c. 24, s. 1. paper, writing, valuable security or account belonging to or in the possession or power of his master or employer or received by him for or in the name or on behalf of his master or employer; or

(b) makes or concurs in making any false entry, or omits, alters or concurs in omitting or altering any material particular in any such book or any document or account,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.

In this section, "valuable security" has the same mean- Ordinance ing as in the Larceny Ordinance, 1935.

No. of

1935.

contract for

shares.

c. 29, s. 1.

4. Every person, whether principal, broker or agent, Making false who wilfully inserts, in any contract, agreement or token of entry in sale and purchase made or entered into for the sale or sale of transfer, or purporting to be for the sale or transfer, of any share, stock or other interest in the capital 30 & 31 Vict. stock of any bank, body corporate, company or society, established by charter or by, under or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, issuing shares or stock transferable by any dead or written instrument, any false entry of the numbers by which the same are distinguished on the registers or books of such company, or any names other than those of the persons in whose name such shares, stock or interest stand as registered proprietors thereof in the books of such