Act 9 Penal Code Act 2008 355. Misrepresentation by the Drawee that Funds are NonAvailable. Whoever, being a servant, or an agent of a drawee, intentionally misrepresents that the drawee has no credit or that the credit is insufficient to meet the cheque, or that the credit is not available for payment, commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with a fine or with both. Offences Relating to Document and to Property or Other Marks 356. Making a False Document Defined. A person is said to make a false document if— (a) he or she dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document or makes any mark denoting the execution of a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or part of a document was made, signed, sealed or executed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he or she knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed or at a time at which he or she knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed; (b) he or she without lawful authority dishonestly or fraudulently by cancellation or otherwise alters a document in any material part thereof after it has been made or executed either by himself or herself by any other person whether such person be living or dead at the time of such alteration; or (c) he or she dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document, knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or that by reason of deception practiced upon him he does not know the contents of the document or the nature of the alteration. 178

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