Act 9 Penal Code Act 357. Forgery and Forged Document Defined. 2008 (1) Whoever makes any false document or part of a document, with the intention to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person or to support any claim or title or to cause any person to part with property or to enter into any expressed or implied contract or with intent to commit fraud or that fraud may be committed, commits forgery; and a false document made wholly or in part by forgery is called a forged document. (2) Whoever commits forgery, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or with a fine or with both. Illustrations— (a) “A” leaves with “B” his or her agent, a cheque on a bank signed by “A” without inserting the sum payable and authorises “B” to complete the cheque by inserting a sum not exceeding SDG2,000 for the purpose of making certain payments “B” fraudulently completes the cheque by inserting a sum of SDG3,000 “B” commits forgery; (b) “A” draws a act of exchange on himself or herself in the name of “B” without “B’s” authority intending to discount it as a genuine act with a banker and intending to take up the act on its maturity with intent to deceive the banker by leading him or her to suppose that he or she had the security of “B” and thereby to discount the act. “A” is guilty of forgery; (c) “Z’s” will contains these words - “I direct that all my remaining property be equally divided between “A”, “B” and “C”. “A” dishonestly scratches out “B’s” name intending that it may be believed that the whole was left to himself or herself and “C”. “A” has committed forgery; 179