(b)
(c)
(d)
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;
introduces into a document without authority while it is being
drawn up matter which if it had been authorised would have
altered the effect of the document;
signs a document—
(i) in the name of any person without his or her 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,
if the effect of the instrument depends upon the identity between
the person signing the document and the person whom he or she
professes to be.
346. 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 by it, and this
presumption is not rebutted by proof that the offender took or intended to
take measures to prevent such person from being defrauded in fact, nor by
the fact that he or she had, or thought he or she had, a right to the thing to be
obtained by the false document.
CHAPTER XXXIV—PUNISHMENT FOR FORGERY.
347. General punishment for forgery.
Any person who forges any document commits an offence which, unless
otherwise stated, is a felony and is liable, unless owing to the circumstances
of the forgery or the nature of the thing forged some other punishment is
provided, to imprisonment for three years.
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