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1174 [ 6 or 1890.) PATENTS ( AMENDMENT ).
[ 7 of 1890. ] FALSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS (AMENDMENT ).
No. 6 OF 1890 .
An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 32 of 1889 and
amend Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled An Ordi
nance for granting Patents for Inventions within this
Colony.
[ Incorporat [ 23rd May, 1890.]
ed with No.14
of 1862.]
Additional 3. Every declaration to be made pursuant to section one of
formalties for Ordinance No. 14 of 1862 shall be made before some person
declarations.
duly authorised to administer an oath in the country where it
is made, and every person who shall knowingly make any
untrue or false statement in any such declaration shall, upon
conviction, be liable to the penalties of perjury.

No. 7 OF 1890.
An Ordinance to amend the Law with reference to
the Falsification of Accounts.
[ 23rd May, 1890.)
HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law so as to
W punish the falsification by clerks, officers, servants,
and others of their employers' accounts,
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books, writings, or
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documents :
Punishment
for falsifica
1. If any clerk , officer, or servant, or any person employed
tion of or acting in the capacity of a clerk, ofticer, or servant, shall
accounts, de. wilfully and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or
falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security or account
which belongs to or is in the possession of his employer,
or has been received by him for or on behalf of his employer, or
shall wilfully and with intent to defraud make or concur in
making any false entry in, or omit or alter, or concur in omit
ting or altering, any material particular from or in any such
book, or any document or account, then in every such case the
person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be
liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour foi any
term not exceeding seven years.
Intention to
defraud , sufli 2. It shall be sufficient in any information under this ordi
cient inform- nance to allege a general intent to defraud, without naming any
ation .
particular person intended to be defrauded .
Ordinances to 3. This ordinance shall be read as one with Ordinance No.
be read with
Ord . No. 7 of 7 of 1863.
1865 .
Short title . 4. This ordinance may be cited as The Falsification of le
counts Ordinance, 1890 .