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Fraudulent certificate of mental condition

Cap. 39, s. 63 · Revised Edition 2020

Every person who, with intent to procure the confinement of another person in the Mental Hospital, knowingly signs or issues a certificate relating to the state of mind of that person which purports to be a certificate signed or issued by a medical practitioner but which in fact is not so signed or issued shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction upon indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
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