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Persons forging Register, Certificate, Transfers, &c. liable to Punishment for Forgery.
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XXXI. If any Person or Persons shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or shall cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any Register or Registers of Birth or Baptism or Death or Burial required under the Provisions of this Act, or any Copy or Certificate of any such Register, or the Name or Names of any Witness or Witnesses to any such Certificate, or any Declaration required to be taken for any of the Purposes of this Act, or any Certificate of any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, or of any Officer acting under the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, of any such Declaration having been taken before him, or any Certificate of any Governor, or Person acting as such, or Minister, or Consul, or Chief Magistrate of any Province, Town, or Place, or other Person authorized by this Act to grant any Certificate of the Life or Death of any Annuitant; or shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or shall cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any Certificate or Certificates of any Officer of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or of any Cashier or Clerk of the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland, or the Name or Names of any Person or Persons in or to any Certificate or other Instrument for the Payment of Money for the Purchase of any Annuity, or Sum payable at Death, under the Provisions of this Act, or in or to any Receipt or Discharge for any such Annuity, or in or to any Receipt or Discharge for any Payment or Payments due or to become due thereon, or for any Sum payable at Death, under the Provisions of this Act, or authorizing or purporting to authorize the Receipt of any Life Annuity, or any Annuity for Years, of whatsoever Kind, or Sum payable at Death, granted under this Act, or under either of the Acts hereby repealed, or any Payment or Payments due or to become due thereon; or if any Person or Persons shall wilfully, falsely, and deceitfully personate any true and real Annuitant, or shall wilfully utter, or deliver or produce to any Person or Persons acting under the Authority of this Act, any such forged Register or Copy of Register, or any such forged Certificate or Declaration, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with Intent to defraud Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or with Intent to defraud any Person or Persons whomsoever; then and in every such Case all and every Persons and Person so offending, and being duly convicted thereof, shall be and is hereby declared to be subject and liable to such Pains and Penalties as by any Laws in force any Persons convicted of Forgery are subject and liable to.
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