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Division VII. – Forgery, Coining, Counterfeiting and Similar Offences (ss 333-379) 333. Definition of forgery 334. CHAPTER XXXVI DEFINITIONS (ss 333-336) Forgery is the making of a false document with intent to defraud or to deceive. Interpretation of "document" The term "document" in this Division of this Code does not include a trade mark or any other sign used in connection with articles of commerce though they may be written or printed. 335. Making a false document 336. Any person makes a false document who– (a) makes a document which is false or which he has reason to believe is untrue; (b) alters a document without authority in such a manner that if the alteration had been authorised it would have altered the effect of the document; (c) introduces into a document without authority, whilst it is being drawn up, matter which if it had been authorised would have altered the effect of the document; (d) signs a document– (i) in the name of any person without his authority, whether such name is or is not the same as that of the person signing; (ii) in the name of any fictitious person alleged to exist whether the fictitious person is or is not alleged to be of the same name as the person signing; (iii) in the name represented as being the name of a different person from that of the person signing it and intended to be mistaken for the name of that person; (iv) in the name of a person personated by the person signing the document, provided that the effect of the instrument depends upon the identity between the person signing the document and the person whom he professes to be. Intent to defraud An intent to defraud is presumed to exist if it appears that at the time when the false document was made there was in existence a specific person ascertained or unascertained capable of being defrauded thereby, and this presumption is not rebutted by proof that the offender took or intended to take measures to prevent that person from being defrauded in fact, nor by the fact that he had or thought he had a right to the thing to be obtained by the false
document. CHAPTER XXXVII PUNISHMENTS FOR FORGERY (ss 337-352A) 337. Offence of, and general punishment for, forgery Any person who forges any document is guilty of an offence, and liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for seven years. 338. Forgeries punishable by imprisonment for life Any person who forges any will, document of title to land, judicial record, power of attorney, bank note, currency note, bill of exchange, promissory note or other negotiable instrument, policy of insurance, cheque or other authority for the payment of money by a person carrying on business as a banker, is liable to imprisonment for life and the court may in addition order that any such document be forfeited to the United Republic. 339. Forgery of judicial or official document Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 340. Forgeries punishable by imprisonment for seven years (1) In this section, the term "stamp" means any stamp used for the purposes of revenue or by any Government department. (2) Any person who– (a) forges any stamp whether impressed or adhesive; (b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making the impression of any stamp; (c) fraudulently cuts, tears in any way, or removes from any material any stamp with intent that another use shall be made of the stamp or any part of it; (d) fraudulently mutilates any stamp with intent that another use shall be made of the stamp; (e) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any such stamp a stamp or part of a stamp which whether fraudulently or not has been cut, torn or in any way removed from any other material or out of or from any other stamp; (f) fraudulently erases or otherwise either really or apparently removes from any stamped material any name, sum, date or other matter or thing whatsoever written thereon with
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