Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 179
179. Saving the cases referred to i n the preceding Sub-title, any
public officer or servant who sh all, in the exercise of his fun ctions,
commit forgery by any false signature, or by the alteration of any
act, writing, or signature, or by inserting the name of any
supposititious person, or by any writing made or entered in any
register or other public act, when already formed or completed,
shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from two
to four years, with or without solitary confinement.
Fraudulent
alteration of acts
by public
officer.
Amended by:
XLIX.1981.4.
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