Forgery Act 1913

2 Forgery of certain documents with, intent to defraud

(1) Forgery of the following documents, if committed with intent to defraud, shall be felony and punishable with penal servitude for life :—

(a) Any will, codicil, or other testamentary document, either of a dead or of a living person, or any probate or letters of administration, whether with or without the will annexed;

(b) Any deed or bond, or any assignment at law or in equity of any deed or bond, or any attestation of the execution of any deed or bond ;

(c) Any bank note, or any indorsement on or assignment of any bank note.

(2) Forgery of the following documents, if committed with intent to defraud, shall be felony and punishable with penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years :—

(a) Any valuable security or assignment thereof or endorsement thereon, or, where the valuable security is a bill of exchange, any acceptance thereof ;

(b) Any document of title to lands or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon ;

(c) Any document of title to goods or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon ;

(d) Any power of attorney or other authority to transfer any share or interest in any stock, annuity, or public fund of the United Kingdom or any part of His Majesty's dominions or of any foreign state or country or to transfer any share or interest in the debt of any public body, company, or society, British or foreign, or in the capital stock of any such company or society, or to receive any dividend or money payable in respect of such share or interest or any attestation of any such power of attorney or other authority ;

(e) Any entry in any book or register which is evidence of the title of any person to any share or interest hereinbefore mentioned or to any dividend or interest payable in respect thereof ;

(f) Any policy of insurance or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon ;

(g) Any charter-party or any assignment thereof;

(h) Any declaration, warrant, order, affidavit, affirmation, certificate, or other document required or authorised to be made by or for the purposes of the [10 Geo. 4. c. 24.] Government Annuities Act, 1829, or the [2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 59.] Government Annuities Act, 1832, or by the National Debt Commissioners acting under the authority of the said Acts ;

(i) Any certificate of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or any other Commissioners acting in execution of the Income Tax Acts ;

(j) Any certificate, certificate of valuation, sentence or decree of condemnation or restitution, or any copy of such sentence or decree, or any receipt required by the Slave Trade Acts.