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Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (-)
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This document is for private study purposes only. It is likely not to reflect the law as it stands today. It may be incomplete, and some provisions are likely to have been repealed or amended, and new ones inserted.
5. Offences relating to money orders, share certificates, passports etc.
(1) It is an offence for a person to have in his custody or under his control an instrument to which this section applies which is, and which he knows or believes to be, false, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's prejudice.
(2) It is an offence for a person to have in his custody or have under his control without lawful authority or excuse, an instrument to which this section applies, which is, and which he knows or believes to be false.
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(5) The Instruments to which this section applies are-
. . .
(f) Passports and documents which can be used instead of passports;
(fa) immigration documents;
Meaning of "false" and "making" in section 1
9.-(1) An instrument is false for the purposes of this Part of this Act-
(a) if it purports to have been made in the form in which it is made by a who did not in fact make it in that form; or
(b) if it purports to have been made in the form in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise its making in that form;
(c) if it purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made by someone who did not in fact make it in those terms; or
(d) if it purports to have been made in the terms in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise its making in terms; or
(e) if it purports to have been altered in any respect by a person who did fact alter it in that respect; or
(f) if it purports to have been altered in any respect on the authority of son who did not in fact authorise the alteration in that respect; or
(g) if it purports to have been made or altered on a date on which, or at a place at which, or otherwise in circumstances in which, it was not in fact made or altered; or
(h) if it purports to have been made or altered by an existing person but he does not in fact exist.
(2) A person is to be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as rnaking a false instrument if he alters an instrument so as to make it false in any respect (whether or not it is false in some other respect apart from that alteration).
Interpretation of Part I
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(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, in this Part of this Act 'instrument' means - . . .
(d) any disc, tape, sound track or other device on or in which information is recorded or stored by mechanical, electronic or other means. . . .
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(1) An instrument is false for the purposes of this Part of this Act -
(a) if it purports to have been made in the form in which it is made by a person who did not in fact make it in that form; or
(b) if it purports to have been made in the form in which it is made on the authority of a person who did not in fact authorise its making in that form; . . .
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(3) In this Part of this Act references to inducing somebody to accept a false instrument as genuine . . . include references to inducing a machine to respond to the instrument . . . as if it were a genuine instrument . . .
(4) Where subsection (3) above applies, the act or omission intended to be induced by the machine responding to the instrument . . . shall be treated as an act or omission to a person's prejudice.
