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.
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