Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 179

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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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