Database of Legislation

Section 349 General punishment for forgery.

Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence which, unless otherwise stated, is a felony and he is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.

Section 354 Uttering cancelled or exhausted documents.

Any person who knowingly utters as and for a subsisting and effectual document any document or electronic record which has by any lawful authority been ordered to be revoked, cancelled or suspended, or the operation of which has ceased by effluxion of time, or by death, or by the happening of any other event, is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to the same punishment, as if he had forged the document.

Section 355 Procuring execution of documents by false pretences.

Any person who, by means of any false and fraudulent representations as to the nature, contents or operation of a document or electronic record, procures another to sign or execute the document or electronic record, is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to the same punishment, as if he had forged the document or electronic record.

Section 357 Making documents without authority.

Any person who, with intent to defraud or to deceive—

(a) without lawful authority or excuse makes, signs or executes for or in the name or on account of another person, whether by procuration or otherwise, any document or electronic record or writing; or

(b) knowingly utters any document or electronic record or writing so made, signed or executed by another person,

is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years