Forgery explained

(1) The following provisions apply with respect to forgery, namely– (a) A person forges a document if he makes or alters such document or any material part thereof with intent to cause it to be believed either– (i) that such document or part has been so made or altered by any person who did not in fact so make or alter it; (ii) that such document or part has been so made or altered with the authority or consent of any person who did not in fact give such authority or consent; or (iii) that such document or part has been so made or altered at a time different from that at which it was in fact so made or altered, provided that a person who issues or uses any document which is exhausted or cancelled, with intent that it may pass or have effect as if it were not exhausted or cancelled, shall be deemed guilty of forging it. (b) The making or alteration of a document or part thereof by a person in his own name may be forgery if the making or alteration be with either of the intents mentioned in this section. (c) The making or alteration of a document or part thereof by a person in a name which is not his real or ordinary name is not forgery unless the making or alteration be with one or other of the intents mentioned in this section. (d) It is immaterial whether the person by whom or with whose authority or consent a document or part thereof purports to have been made, or is intended to be believed to have been made, be living or dead or be a fictitious person. (e) Every word, letter, figure, mark, seal or thing expressed on or in a document, or forming part thereof, or attached thereto, and any colouring, shape or device used therein which purports to indicate the person by whom or by whose authority or consent a document or part thereof has been made, altered, executed, delivered, attested, verified, certified or issued, or which may affect the purport, operation or validity of the document in any material particular, is a material part of such (f) “Alteration” includes any cancelling, erasure, severance, interlineation or transposition, of or in a document, or of or in any material part thereto, and any other act or device whereby the purport, operation or validity of the document may be affected. (2) All the provisions of this section apply with respect to the forgery of a stamp or trade-mark in the same manner as with respect to the forgery of any document.