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(1) any permit, certificate, or similar document made or granted by or under the authority of the Governor or the head of any department of the Government of the Colony.
other docu-
6-(1) Forgery of any document, which is not made felony under this or any other enactment for the time being in force, if committed with intent to defraud, shall be a misdemeanor and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.
Forgery of documents with intent to defraud or to deceive to be misdemeanor.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 4.
(2) Forgery of any public document which is not made felony under this or any other enactment for the time being in force, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be a misdemeanor and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.
seals and dies.
7.-(1) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with penal servitude for life:-
(a) the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Privy Seal, any privy signet of His Majesty, His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, any of His Majesty's seals appointed by the twenty-fourth Article of the Union between England and Scotland to be kept, used, and continued in Scotland, the Great Seal of Ireland, the Privy Seal of Ireland, or the public seal of the Colony;
(b) the seal of any court of record.
(2) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony, and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years:
(a) the seal of any register office relating to births, baptisms, marriages, or deaths;
(b) the seal of or belonging to any office for the registry of deeds or titles to lands.
(3) Forgery of the following seal, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years:
the seal of any court of justice other than a court of record.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 5.
FORGERY.
No. 11 of 1922.
2659
(1) any permit, certificate, or similar document made or granted by or under the authority of the Governor or the head of any department of the Government of the Colony.
other docu-
6-(1) Forgery of any document, which is not made felony Forgery of under this or any other enactment for the time being in force, ments with if committed with intent to defraud, shall be a misdemeanor intent to de- and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding fraud or to three years.
misdemeanor. 3 & 4 Geo. 5,
(2) Forgery of any public document which is not made c. 27, s. 4. felony under this or any other enactment for the time being in force, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be a misdemeanor and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.
seals and dies.
7.-(1) Forgery of the following seals, if committed Forgery of with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with penal servitude for life:-
(a) the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Privy Seal, any privy signet of His Majesty, His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, any of His Majesty's seals appointed by the twenty-fourth Article of the Union between England and Scotland to be kept, used, and continued in Scotland, the Great Seal of Ireland, the Privy Seal of Ireland, or the public seal of the Colony;
(b) the seal of any court of record.
(2) Forgery of the following seals, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony, and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen
years:
(a) the seal of any register office relating to births, baptisms, marriages, or deaths;
(b) the seal of or belonging to any office for the registry of deeds or titles to lands.
(3) Forgery of the following seal, if committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years:
the seal of any court of justice other than a court of record.
3 & 4 Geo. 5,
c. 27, s. 5.
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