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235.   Forgery of documents defined

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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235.   Forgery of documents defined

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    (1)   A person forges a document if he or she makes a false document with the intention that he, she, or another person shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do any act to his or her own or any other person's prejudice.

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    (2)   A person makes a false document if he or she makes or alters the document, or any material part of it, with intent to cause it to be believed—

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      (a)     that such document or part of it has been so made or altered by another person who did not in fact so make or alter it;

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      (b)     that such document or part of it has been so made or altered with the authority or consent of another person who did not in fact give such authority or consent;

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      (c)     that such document or part of it has been so made or altered at a time different from that at which it was in fact so made or altered.

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    (3)   A person who issues or uses any document which is exhausted or cancelled, with intent that it may pass or have effect as if it were not exhausted or cancelled commits the offence of forging such document.

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    (4)   The making or alteration of a document or part of it by a person in his or her own name may be forgery if the making or alteration is done with any of the intents mentioned in subsection (1).

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    (5)   The making or alteration of a document or part of it by a person in a name which is not his or her real or ordinary name is not forgery unless the making or alteration is done with any of the intentions mentioned in this section.

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    (6)   It is immaterial whether the person by whom or with whose authority or consent a document or part of it is purported to be made, or is intended to be believed to have been made, is living or dead or a fictitious person.

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    (7)   A material part of a document is every word, letter, figure, seal, or thing expressed on or in a document, or forming part of it or attached to it, and any colouring, shape, or device used in the document which purports to indicate the person by whom or with whose authority or consent, the document or part of it has been made, altered, executed, delivered, attested, verified, certified or issued, or which may affect the purport, operation or validity of the document in any material particular.

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    (8)   In this section “alteration” includes any cancellation, erasure, severance, interlineations, or transposition in a document or in any material part to the document and the addition of any material part to the document, and any other act or device by which the purport, operation, or validity of the document may be affected.

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    (9)   The provisions of this section apply with respect to the forgery of a stamp in the same manner as they apply with respect to the forgery of a document.

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