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348. Purchasing forged notes Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, purchases or receives from any person, or has in his possession, a forged bank note or currency note, whether filled up or in blank, knowing it to be forged, is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 349. Falsifying warrants for money payable under public authority Any person who, being employed in the public service, knowingly and with intent to defraud, makes out or delivers to any person a warrant for the payment of any money payable by a public authority for a greater or lesser amount than that to which the person on whose behalf the warrant is made out is entitled, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 350. Falsification of register Any person who, having the actual custody of any register or record kept by lawful authority, knowingly permits any entry which in any material particular is to his knowledge false, to be made in the register or record, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 351. Sending false certificate of marriage to registrar Any person who signs or transmits to a person authorised by law to register marriages, a certificate of marriage, or any document purporting to be certificate of marriage, which in any material particular is to his knowledge false, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 352. False statements for registers of births, deaths and marriages Any person who knowingly and with intent to procure the same to be inserted in a register of births, deaths or marriages, makes any false statement touching any matter required by law to be registered in any such register, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for three years. 352A. Wrongful issue of notes Any person who issues or is a party to issuing– (a) any note purporting to be a currency note of Tanzania; or (b) any bank note purporting to be currency in Tanzania, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the Bank of Tanzania Act *(22), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
353. Definitions In this Chapter– CHAPTER XXXVIII OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN (ss 353-364) "coin" includes any coin coined in a mint for use in Tanzania, or lawfully current in Tanzania or in any part of the Commonwealth; and any coin of a foreign sovereign or state, and coin which was at any time legal tender in Tanzania or in any other country and which is convertible into coin of legal tender therein; "counterfeit coin" means coin not genuine but resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for genuine coin; and includes genuine coin prepared or altered so as to pass for coin of a higher denomination. 354. Counterfeiting coins Any person who makes or attempts to make any counterfeit coin is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life. 355. Preparations for coining Any person who– (a) gilds or silvers any piece of metal of a fit size or figure to be coined, with intent that it shall be coined into counterfeit coin; (b) makes any piece of metal into a fit size or figure to be coined, with intent that it shall be coined into counterfeit coin; or (c) without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him– (i) buys, sells, receives, pays or disposes of any counterfeit coin at a lower rate than it imports or is apparently intended to import, or offers to do any such thing; (ii) brings or receives into Tanzania any counterfeit coin, knowing it to be counterfeit; (iii) makes or mends, or begins or prepares to make or mend, or has in his possession, or disposes of any stamp or mould which is adapted to make the resemblance of both or either of the sides of any coin, or any part of either side thereof, knowing the same to be a stamp or mould or to be so adapted; (iv) makes or mends, or begins or prepares to make or mend, or has in his possession, or disposes of any tool, instrument or machine which is adapted and intended to be used for making coin round the edges with marks or figures apparently resembling those on the edges of any coin, knowing the same to be so
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