Table of Contents (Display details)

• Forgery 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Forgery Offences
  • 2 Forgery of the Public Seal
  • 3 Forging transfer of certain stock and power of attorney relating thereto
  • 4 Personating the owner of certain stock and transferring or receiving, etc., the dividends
  • 5 Forging attestation to power of attorney for transfer of stock, etc.
  • 6 Forging bank-notes
  • 7 Purchasing, receiving or having forged bank-notes
  • 8 Forging deeds, bonds, etc.
  • 9 Forging wills
  • 10 Forging bills of exchange or promissory notes
  • 11 Forging orders, receipts, etc., for money, goods, etc.
  • 12 Making or accepting any bill, note, etc., by procuration without lawful authority or uttering same with intent to defraud
  • 13 Forging debentures
  • 14 Forging proceedings of courts of record
  • 15 Forging copies or certificates of records, process of courts not of record and using forged process
  • 16 Forging instruments made evidence by any Act
  • 17 Forgery as to the registry of deeds
  • 18 Forging orders of magistrates, recognisances, affidavits, etc.
  • 19 Acknowledging recognisance, bail, etc., in the name of another
  • 20 Forging or uttering marriage licence or certificate
  • 20A Forgery of passport
  • 21 Forging registers of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials
  • 22 Making false entries in copies of register sent to registrar
  • 23 Demanding property upon forged instrument
• PART II General
  • 24 Forging any instrument, however designated, which is in law a will, bill of exchange, etc.
  • 25 Intent to defraud particular person need not be proved
  • 26 Meaning of possession
• PART III Legal Proceedings
  • 27 Principals in the second degree, accessories and abettors
  • 28 Offences committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty
  • 29 Fines and sureties for keeping the peace