646
Punishment of officer certifying false document.
14 & 15 Vict. c. 99 s. 15.
Punishment of person forging seal, stamp, or signature of certain documents, etc.
8 & 9 Viet. c. 113 s. 4; 14 & 15 Vict. c. 99 s. 17; c. 42 s. 5.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
50. If any officer who is authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any certified copies or extracts wilfully certifies any document as being a true copy or extract, knowing that the same is not a true copy or extract, as the case may be, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding eighteen months.
51.-(1.) Every person who (a.) forges the seal, stamp, or signature of any document mentioned or referred to in this Ordinance; or (b.) tenders in evidence any such document with a false or counterfeit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than one year.
(2.) Whenever any such document has been admitted in evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the court or the person who has admitted the same, may, at the request of any party against whom the same is so admitted in evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded and be kept in the custody of such officer of the court or other proper person, for such period, and subject to such conditions as to the said court or person may seem meet.
A.D. 53.
PART VII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
52.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor or any Judge of the Supreme Court, in any case where he may see fit to do so, on application by affidavit, to issue a warrant or order under his hand for bringing up any prisoner or person confined in any gaol or prison or place in the Colony under any sentence or under commitment for trial or otherwise (except under process in any civil proceedings) before any Court, Judge, Magistrate, or other judicature to make his defence or to be examined as a witness in any proceedings depending or to be inquired of or determined in or before such Court, Judge, Magistrate, or judicature.
(2.) The person required by any such warrant or order to be so brought before such Court, Judge, Magistrate, or other judicature shall be so brought under the same care and custody, and be dealt with in like manner in all respects, as a prisoner required by any writ of habeas corpus awarded by the Supreme Court to be brought before the said Court to be examined as a witness in any cause or matter depending before the said Court is now by law required to be dealt with.
646
Punishment of officer
certifying false
document.
14 & 15 Vict.
c. 99 s. 15.
Punishment
of person forging seal, stamp, or signature of certain docu- ments, etc.
8 & 9 Viet.
c. 113 s. 4;
14 & 15 Vict. c. 99 s. 17;
c. 42 s. 5.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
50. If any officer who is authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any certified copies or extracts wilfully certifies any document as being a true copy or extract, knowing that the same is not a true copy or extract, as the case may be, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding eighteen months.
51.-(1.) Every person who
(a.) forges the seal, stamp, or signature of any document mentioned
or referred to in this Ordinance; or
(b.) tenders in evidence any such document with a false or counter- feit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to
17 & 18 Vict. imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding
seven years and not less than one year.
(2.) Whenever any such document has been admitted in evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the court or the person who has admitted the same, may, at the request of any party against whom the same is so admitted in evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded and be kept in the custody of such officer of the court or other proper person, for such period, and subject to such conditions as to the said court or person may seem meet.
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PART VII.
MISCELLANEóus ProvisIONS,
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