Stamp Duties Management Act 1891

13 Certain offences in relation to dies and stamps provided by Commissioners to be felonies. U.K.

Every person who does, or causes or procures to be done, or knowingly aids, abets, or assists in doing, any of the acts following; that is to say,

[F1 (1) Forges a die or stamp;

(2) Prints or makes an impression upon any material with a forged die;]

(3) Fraudulently prints or makes an impression upon any material from a genuine die;

(4) Fraudulently cuts, tears, or in any way removes from any material any stamp, with intent that any use should be made of such stamp or of any part thereof;

(5) Fraudulently mutilates any stamp, with intent that any use should be made of any part of such stamp;

(6) Fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any stamp, any stamp or part of a stamp which, whether fraudulently or not, has been cut, torn, or in any way removed from any other material, or out of or from any other stamp;

(7) Fraudulently erases or otherwise either really or apparently removes from any stamped material any name, sum, date, or other matter or thing whatsoever thereon written, with the intent that any use should be made of the stamp upon such material;

(8) Knowingly sells or exposes for sale or utters or uses [F2 any forged stamp, or] any stamp which has been fraudulently printed or impressed from a genuine die;

(9) Knowingly, and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) has in his possession [F2 any forged die or stamp or] any stamp which has been fraudulently printed or impressed from a genuine die, or any stamp or part of a stamp which has been fraudulently cut, torn, or otherwise removed from any material, or any stamp which has been fraudulently mutilated, or any stamped material out of which any name, sum, date, or other matter or thing has been fraudulently erased or otherwise either really or apparently removed,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall on conviction be liable to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years, or to be imprisoned . . . . . . F3 for any term not exceeding two years.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 13(1)(2) repealed (E.W.) by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I

F2 Words repealed (E.W.) by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I

F3 Words omitted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 13 amended (E.W.) as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c.43, SIF 82), s. 17, Sch. 1 para. 12

C2 Reference to penal servitude to be construed as reference to imprisonment: (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(1) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(1)