Article 309
Forgery is the making or writings, document, signatures and seals that are not real, or changing such things by addition, substitution, imitation or omission.
Article 310
1– A person who forges one of the following items, or being aware of their forgery, uses them or brings them into Afghanistan, shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to long imprisonment:
1– Law, presidential decree, decision of the Government and/or Prime Ministry’s decree or the final decision of the court.
2– State seal, seal or signature of the head of State.
2– A person who makes one of the following items with the aim of forgery or, being aware of their forgery, uses them or brings them into Afghanistan, shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to medium imprisonment:
1– Seal, stamp or the symbol of one the Government departments of enterprises. 2– Seal, stamp or the symbol of one of the officials of public services.
3– The official sign for designating the fineness of gold and silver.
4– Payroll or draft documents of State treasuries.
5– Financial papers of bank whose issuance is permissible.
6– Degrees and educational documents, both domestic and foreign.
Article 311
In cases mentioned in article 310 of this Law, the criminal who informs the competent authorities of the State before the start of investigation of his crime shall be exempted from punishment.
Article 312
The court can exempt from punishment the criminal mentioned in article 311 of this Law after the start of investigation if his information enables the State authorities to arrest others criminals involved in same or similar crimes.
Article 313
1– If an official of public services in the discharge of duty deliberately forges orders, decisions, documents, office register books and other official correspondence, the official shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to long imprisonment.
2– If the forgery mentioned in the above paragraph involves unofficial documents, the offender shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to medium or short imprisonment.
Article 314 (Amended)
Whenever the person who commits crimes mentioned in article 313 of this law is not a civil servant, in accordance with the circumstances, he/she shall be sentenced to short or medium imprisonment.
Article 315
Any official of public services who for the purpose of forgery changes the content or form of documents while writing in line with his duty, whether this change is in the confession of a person for whom the documents is being written or registers a forged indictment, being aware of its forgery, as a true incident, the official shall be sentenced to long imprisonment in the light of circumstances.
Article 316 [AMENDED]
1– The person who knowingly use forged documents listed paragraph 1 of article
313 and forged documents mentioned in articles 314 and 315 of this Law, in accordance with the circumstances, he/she shall be sentenced to medium or long-term imprisonment.
Article 316 [AMENDED]
1– The person who knowingly use forged documents listed paragraph 1 of article
313 and forged documents mentioned in articles 314 and 315 of this Law, in accordance with the circumstances, he/she shall be sentenced to medium or long-term imprisonment.
2- The person who knowingly used forged documents of paragraph 2 of article 313 of this Law, in accordance with circumstances, shall be sentenced to short or medium imprisonment."
Article 317
A person who forges the writing of someone else, or being cognizant of its forgery uses the forged paper, shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to medium imprisonment.
Article 318
A person who wrongly obtains the real stamp or seal of one of the departments or enterprises of the State and uses it against public or private interest shall be sentenced, in addition to compensation for the loss caused, to medium imprisonment.
Article 319 [AMENDED]
Doctor, surgeon or midwife-nurse who give to a person forged statements of certificates, being aware of their forgery, to persons in cases of birth, illness, disability, handicap or death, shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to medium imprisonment or cash fine of not less than 12,000 and not more than 60,000 Afghanis.
Article 320
A person who, himself or through someone else, forges the certificates of disability for himself of someone else, for the purpose of presenting it to the court to release himself or someone else from public services, in the name of a doctor or surgeon shall be sentenced in the light of circumstances to medium imprisonment or cash fine of not less than 12,000 and not more than 60,000 Afghanis.
Article 321 [AMENDED]
The person who knowingly forged certificate listed in articles 319 and 320 of this law as that present it to court or one of the authorized officials of the government, he/she shall be punished by the same penalty prescribed in the mentioned articles.
Article 322
In the application of the provisions of this chapter, finger-print has the same credit as signature.
Please note that this is an unofficial translation.