[2001.]
Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud
Offences) Act, 2001.
[No. 50.]
Pt.4 S.24
(b) money order,
(c) postal order,
(d) postage stamp issued or sold by An Post or any mark denoting payment of postage which is authorised by An Post
to be used instead of an adhesive stamp,
(e) stamp of the Revenue Commissioners denoting any stamp
duty or fee, whether it is an adhesive stamp or a stamp
impressed by means of a die,
(f) licence or certificate issued by the Revenue Commissioners,
(g) cheque, including traveller’s cheque, or bank draft,
(h) charge card, cheque card, credit card, debit card or any card
combining two or more of the functions performed by
such cards,
(i) share certificate,
(j) certified copy, issued by or on behalf of an tArd-Chláraitheoir, of an entry in any register of births, stillbirths,
marriages or deaths or in the Adopted Children Register,
(k) certificate relating to such an entry,
(l) a certificate of insurance,
(m) passport or document which can be used instead of a
passport,
(n) document issued by or on behalf of a Minister of the
Government and permitting or authorising a person to
enter or remain (whether temporarily or permanently) in
the State or to enter employment therein,
(o) registration certificate issued under Article 11(1)(e)(i) of the
Aliens Order, 1946 (S.I. No. 395 of 1946),
(p) public service card,
(q) ticket of admission to an event to which members of the
public may be admitted on payment of a fee;
‘‘prejudice’’ and ‘‘induce’’, in relation to a person, have the meanings
assigned to those words by section 31;
‘‘share certificate’’ means a document entitling or evidencing the title
of a person to a share or interest—
(a) in any public stock, annuity, fund or debt of the Government or the State or of any government or state, including a state which forms part of another state, or
(b) in any stock, fund or debt of a body (whether corporate or
unincorporated), wherever established.
25.—(1) A person is guilty of forgery if he or she makes a false
instrument with the intention that it shall be used to induce another
person to accept it as genuine and, by reason of so accepting it, to
do some act, or to make some omission, to the prejudice of that
person or any other person.
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Forgery.