Falsification of Documents.
[CAP. 208
CHAPTER 208.
FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS.
To amend the law relating to the falsification of documents. 38 of 1935.
[6th September, 1935.]
9 of 1936. 22 of 1950,
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Falsification of Documents Ordinance.
Short title.
2. Any person who, being a clerk or servant employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, with intent to defraud-
(a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, 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 seven years.
In this section, "valuable security" has the same meaning as in the Larceny Ordinance.
to defraud. 38 & 39 Vict. c 24, s. 1.
[3 (Cap. 210).
3. Any person, whether principal, broker or agent, who wilfully inserts, in any contract, agreement or token of contract for sale and purchase made or entered into for the sale or transfer, or purporting to be for the sale or transfer, of any share, stock or other interest in the capital 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 deed 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 company, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment for three years.
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Falsification of Documents.
[CAP. 208
CHAPTER 208.
FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS.
To amend the law relating to the falsification of documents. 38 of 1935.
[6th September, 1935.]
9 of 1936. 22 of 1950,
J
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Falsification of Documents Ordinance.
Short title.
or Falsification of accounts
2. Any person who, being a clerk or servant employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant, with with intent intent to defraud-
(a) destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any book, paper, writing, valuable security or account belong- ing 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 docu- ment or account, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for seven years.
In this section, "valuable security" has the same meaning as in the Larceny Ordinance.
to defraud. 38 & 39 Vict. c 24, s. 1.
[3 (Cap. 210).
sale of shares.
c. 29, B. 1.
3. Any person, whether principal, broker or agent, Making false who wilfully inserts, in any contract, agreement or token of contract for sale and purchase made or entered into for the sale or 30 & 31 Vict. transfer, or purporting to be for the sale or transfer, of any share, stock or other interest in the capital 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 deed 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 company, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to
a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment for three 22 of 1950,
years.
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