Government Annuities Act 1929

33 Forgery

If, in Scotland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, any person forges or knowingly assists in forging or, with intent to defraud, utters to any person acting under this Part of this Act—

(a) any register of the birth, baptism, death, burial or marriage of any person appointed or to be appointed a nominee under this Part of this Act, or any copy or certificate of any such register, or the name of any witness to any such certificate;

(b) any declaration, warrant, order, or other instrument, or any affidavit required to be made by this Part of this Act or by the Commissioners under any authority given to them for that purpose;

(c) any certificate of any justice of the peace or magistrate of any such affidavit having been taken before him, or any certificate or order of any officer of the Commissioners;

(d) any certificate of any person authorised under this Part of this Act to grant any certificate of the life or death of any nominee;

(e) any certificate or order of any cashier or clerk of the Bank of England;

(f) the name of any person on any transfer of any stock or annuities, or on any certificate, order, warrant, or other instrument for the payment of money, for the purchase of any annuity under the provisions of this Part of this Act;

(g) the name of any person on any transfer or acceptance of any such annuity in the books of the Bank of England or in the books of the Commissioners;

(h) the name of any person on any receipt or discharge for any such annuity, or on any receipt or discharge for any payment due or to become due thereon;

(i) the name of any person on any letter of attorney or other authority or instrument authorising the transfer or acceptance of any stock or annuities, or of any annuity under the provisions of this Part of this Act, or authorising the receipt of any such annuity, or any payment due, or to become due thereon;

he shall on conviction be liable to penal servitude for life.