[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
CAP. 63
347. Making a false document
Any person makes a false document who—
(a) makes a document purporting to be what in fact it is not; or
(b) alters a document without authority in such a manner that if the
alteration had been authorized it would have altered the effect of the
document; or
(c) introduces into a document without authority whilst it is being drawn
up matter which if it had been authorized would have altered the effect
of the document; or
(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; or
(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; or
(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; or
(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;
(e) fraudulently—
(i) makes or transmits any electronic record or part of an electronic
record;
(ii) affixes any digital signature on any electronic record; or
(iii) makes any mark denoting the authenticity of a digital
signature,with the intention of causing it to be believed that
such record, or part of document, electronic record or digital
signature was made, signed, executed, transmitted or affixed
by or by the authority of a person by whom or whose authority
he knows that it was not made, signed, executed or affixed;
(f) without lawful authority or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise,
alters a document or an electronic record in any material part thereof,
after it has been made, executed or affixed with a digital signature
either by himself or by any other person, whether such person is living
or dead at the time of such alter;
(g) fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a
document or an electronic record or to affix his digital signature on any
electronic record knowing that such person by reason of deception
practised upon him, does not know the contents of the document or
electronic record or the nature of the alteration.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 32, Act No. 24 of 1967, Sch., L.N. 280/1967.]
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