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Browse Acts ↓Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is mentioned in section 332; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch fire from it, is guilty of a felony and is liable to…
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to, cuts down, destroys or seriously or permanently injures— (a) a crop of cultivated produce, whether standing, picked or cut; or (b) a crop of hay or grass under cultivation, whether the natural or indigenous product of the soil or not, and whether…
Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to set fire to, cut down, destroy or seriously or permanently injure any such thing as is mentioned in section 334; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything which is so situated that any such thing as is mentioned in that section is likely to catch…
Any person who— (a) wilfully and unlawfully casts away or destroys any vessel, whether completed or not; or (b) wilfully and unlawfully does any act which tends to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress; or (c) with intent to bring a vessel into danger, interferes with any light,…
Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen is guilty of a felony and is liable, if the animal is an animal such as is referred to in section 278, to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, in any other case, to imprisonment for three years.
(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property is guilty of an offence, which, unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour, and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for five years. (2) If the property in question is a dwelling-house or a vessel,…
Any person who, unlawfully and with intent to destroy or damage any property, puts any explosive substance in any place whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Any person who wilfully and unlawfully causes, or is concerned in causing or attempts to cause, any infectious disease to be communicated to or among any animal or animals capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who— (a) wilfully damages, injures or obstructs any work, way, road, building, turnstile, gate, toll bar, fence, weighing machine, engine, tender, carriage, wagon, truck, material or plant, acquired for or belonging to any railway works; or pulls up, removes, defaces or destroys, or in an…
Any person who, wilfully and unlawfully, destroys or damages, or does any act with intent to, or knowing it to be likely that such act will, impair the usefulness or efficiency or prevent or impede the working of, any property used or intended to be used in the service of the Government or any local…
Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, sends, delivers, utters or directly or indirectly causes to be received any letter or writing threatening to burn or destroy any house, barn or other building, or any rick or stack of grain, hay or straw, or other agricultural produce, whether in or unde…
Forgery is the making of a false document with intent to defraud or to deceive.
In this division of this Code, “document” does not include a trade mark or any other sign used in connexion with articles of commerce though they may be written or printed or in electronic form.
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 auth…
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 thereby, and this presumption is not rebutted by proof that the offender took or intended to take…
Any person who forges any document or electronic record is guilty of an offence which, unless otherwise stated, is a felony and he 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.
(1) Any person who forges any will, document of title to land, judicial record, power of attorney, bank note, currency note, bill of exchange, promissory note or other negotiable instrument, policy of insurance, cheque or other authority for the payment of money by a person carrying on business as a…
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Any person who— (a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue or accounting by any Government department; or (b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making the i…
Any person who knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the thing in question.
Any person who knowingly utters as and for a subsisting and effectual document any document or electronic record which has by any lawful authority been ordered to be revoked, cancelled or suspended, or the operation of which has ceased by effluxion of time, or by death, or by the happening of any ot…
Any person who, by means of any false and fraudulent representations as to the nature, contents or operation of a document or electronic record, procures another to sign or execute the document or electronic record, is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to the same punishment, as i…
Any person who, with intent to defraud— (a) obliterates, adds to or alters the crossing on a cheque; or (b) knowingly utters a crossed cheque, the crossing on which has been obliterated, added to or altered, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
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 electro…
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…
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 impriso…
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 ent…
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.
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…