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No. 11 of 1922.
FORGERY.
Definition of forgery.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 1. [cf. No. 8 of 1937, s. 8 (4).]
(2) References in this Ordinance to any Act in force in the United Kingdom at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be held to include a reference to that Act as amended, extended or applied by any other Act.
3. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, forgery is the making of a false document in order that it may be used as genuine, and in the case of the seals and dies mentioned in this Ordinance the counterfeiting of a seal or die, and forgery with intent to defraud or deceive, as the case may be, is punishable as in this Ordinance provided.
(2) A document is false within the meaning of this Ordinance if the whole or any material part thereof purports to be made by or on behalf or on account of a person who did not make it nor authorize its making; or if, though made by or on behalf or on account of the person by whom or by whose authority it purports to have been made, the time or place of making, where either is material, or in the case of a document identified by number or mark, the number or any distinguishing mark identifying the document, is falsely stated therein; and in particular a document is false----
(a) if any material alteration, whether by addition, insertion, obliteration, erasure, removal or otherwise, has been made therein;
(b) if the whole or some material part of it purports to be made by or on behalf of a fictitious or deceased person;
(c) if, though made in the name of an existing person, it is made by him or by his authority with the intention that it should pass as having been made by some person, real or fictitious, other than the person who made or authorized it.
(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance--
(a) it is immaterial in what language a document is expressed or in what place within or without His Majesty's dominions it is expressed to take effect;
(b) forgery of a document may be complete even if the document when forged is incomplete, or is not or does not purport to be such a document as would be binding or sufficient in law; and
1566
No. 11 of 1922.
FORGERY.
Definition of forgery.
3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, s. 1. [cf. No. 8 of 1937, s. 8 (4).]
(2) References in this Ordinance to any Act in force in the United Kingdom at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be held to include a reference to that Act as amended, extended or applied by any other Act.
3. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, forgery is the making of a false document in order that it may be used as genuine, and in the case of the seals and dies mentioned in this Ordinance the counterfeiting of a seal or die, and forgery with intent to defraud or deceive, as the case may be, is punishable as in this Ordinance provided.
(2) A document is false within the meaning of this Ordin- ance if the whole or any material part thereof purports to be made by or on behalf or on account of a person who did not make it nor authorize its making; or if, though made by or on behalf or on account of the person by whom or by whose authority it purports to have been made, the time or place of making, where either is material, or in the case of a document identified by number or mark, the number or any distinguishing mark identifying the document, is falsely stated therein; and in particular a document is false----
(a) if any material alteration, whether by addition, insertion, obliteration, erasure, removal or otherwise, has been made therein;
(b) if the whole or some material part of it purports to be made by or on behalf of a fictitious or deceased person;
(c) if, though made in the name of an existing person, it is made by him or by his authority with the intention that it should pass as having been made by some person, real or fictitious, other than the person who made or authorized it.
(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance--
(a) it is immaterial in what language a document is expressed or in what place within or without His Majesty's dominions it is expressed to take effect;
(b) forgery of a document may be complete even if the document when forged is incomplete, or is not or does not purport to be such a document as would be binding or sufficient in law; and
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