CAP. 63
Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
357. Making documents without authority
Any person who, with intent to defraud or to deceive—
(a) without lawful authority or excuse makes, signs or executes for or in
the name or on account of another person, whether by procuration or
otherwise, any document or electronic record or writing; or
(b) knowingly utters any document or electronic record or writing so
made, signed or executed by another person,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
[L.N. 559/1962, Act No. 1 of 2009, Sixth Sch.]
358. Demanding property upon forged testamentary instruments
Any person who procures the delivery or payment to himself or any other person
of any property or money by virtue of any probate or letters of administration
granted upon a forged testamentary instrument, knowing the testamentary
instrument to have been forged, or upon or by virtue of any probate or letters
of administration obtained by false evidence, knowing the grant to have been
so obtained, is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to the same
punishment, as if he had forged the document or thing by virtue whereof he
procures the delivery or payment.
359. Purchasing forged notes
Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on
him, imports or 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 a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
360. 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 public authority, for a greater or less amount than that to which
the person on whose behalf the warrant is made out is entitled, is guilty of a felony
and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
361. 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 a felony and
is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
362. Sending false certificate of marriage to registrar
Any person who signs or transmits to a person authorized by law to register
marriages a certificate of marriage, or any document purporting to be a certificate
of marriage, which in any material particular is to his knowledge false, is guilty of
a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
363. 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 the register is guilty of a felony and
is liable to imprisonment for three years.
[Issue 1]
P6-106
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