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Possessing forged bank

notes.

Drawing do

cument without authority.

Using probate obtained by forgery or perjury.

430. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment who, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him), purchases or receives from any person, or has in his custody or possession, any forged bank note, or forged blank bank note, whether complete or not, knowing it to be forged. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 19.

431. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence who, with intent to defraud and without lawful authority or excuse, makes or executes, draws, signs, accepts or endorses, in the name or on the account of another person, by procuration or otherwise, any document, or makes use of or utters any such document knowing it to be so made, executed, signed, accepted or endorsed, and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged such document. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 30.

432. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment, who

(a.) demands, receives, obtains or causes, or procures to be delivered or paid to any person, anything under, upon, or by virtue of any forged instrument knowing the same to be forged, or under, upon, or by virtue of any probate or letters of administration, knowing the will, codicil, or testamentary writing on which such probate or letters of administration were obtained to be forged, or knowing the probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by any false oath, affirmation, or affidavit; or

(b.) attempts to do any such thing as aforesaid. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 45.

Interpretation of terms.

Instruments

of forgery.

PART XXXII.

PREPARATION FOR FORGERY AND OFFENCES

RESEMBLING FORGERY.

433. In this part the following expressions are used in the following senses:

(a.) "Exchequer bill paper" means any paper provided by the proper authority for the purpose of being used as exchequer bills, exchequer bonds, notes, debentures, or other securities mentioned in section four hundred and twenty ;

(b.) "Revenue paper" means any paper provided by the proper authority for the purpose of being used for stamps, licenses, or permits, or for any other purpose connected with the public revenue.

434. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment who, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him)—

(a.)

(a.) makes, begins to make, uses or knowingly has in his possession, any machinery or instrument or material for making exchequer bill paper, revenue paper or paper intended to resemble the bill paper of any firm or body corporate, or person carrying on the business of banking; R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 14, 16, 20 and 24; or

(b.) engraves or makes upon any plate or material anything purporting to be, or apparently intended to resemble, the whole or any part of any exchequer bill or bank note; R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 20, 22 and 24; or

(c.) uses any such plate or material for printing any part of any such exchequer bill or bank note; R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 22 and 23; or

(d.) knowingly has in his possession any such plate or material as aforesaid; R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 22 and 23; or

(e.) makes, uses or knowingly has in his possession any exchequer bill paper, revenue paper, or any paper intended to resemble any bill paper of any firm, body corporate, company, or person, carrying on the business of banking, or any paper upon which is written or printed the whole or any part of any exchequer bill, or of any bank note; R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 15, 16, 20 and 24.

(f) engraves or makes upon any plate or material anything intended to resemble the whole or any distinguishing part of any bond or undertaking for the payment of money used by any dominion, colony or possession of Her Majesty, or by any foreign prince or state, or by any body corporate, or other body of the like nature, whether within Her Majesty's dominions or without; R.S.C, c. 165, s. 25; or

(g.) uses any such plate or other material for printing the whole or any part of such bond or undertaking; R.S.C., c. 165, s. 25; or

(h.) knowingly offers, disposes of or has in his possession any paper upon which such bond or undertaking, or any part thereof, has been printed; R.S.C., c. 165, s. 25.

435. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Counterfeitliable to fourteen years' imprisonment who

(a.) fraudulently counterfeits any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue by the Government of the United Kingdom or of Canada, or by the Government of any province of Canada, or of any possession or colony of Her Majesty, or by any foreign prince or state; or

(b.) knowingly sells or exposes for sale, or utters or uses any such counterfeit stamp; or

(c.) without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him) makes, or has knowingly in his possession, any die or instrument capable of making the impression of any such stamp as aforesaid, or any part thereof; or

(d.)

ing stamps.

Falsifying registers.

Falsifying

(d.) fraudulently cuts, tears or in any way removes from any material any such stamp, with intent that any use should be made of such stamp or of any part thereof; or

(e.) fraudulently mutilates any such stamp with intent that any use would be made of any part of such stamp; or (f) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material, or upon any such stamp, as aforesaid, any stamp or part of a stamp which, whether fraudulently or not, has been cut, torn, or in any other way removed from any other material or out of or from any other stamp; or

(g.) fraudulently erases, or otherwise, either really or apparently, removes, from any stamped material any name, sum, date, or other matter or thing thereon written, with the intent that any use should be made of the stamp upon such material; or

(h.) knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie upon him) has in his possession any stamp or part of a stamp which has been fraudulently cut, torn, or otherwise removed from any material, or any stamp which has been fraudulently mutilated, or any stamped material out of which any name, sum, date, or other matter or thing has been fraudulently erased or otherwise, either really or apparently, removed; R.S.C., c. 165, s. 17; or

(i.) without lawful authority makes or counterfeits any mark or brand used by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Government of Canada, or the Government of any province of Canada, or by any department or officer of any such Government for any purpose in connection with the service or business of such Government, or the impression of any such mark or brand, or sells or exposes for sale or has in his possession any goods having thereon a counterfeit of any such mark or brand knowing the same to be a counterfeit, or affixes any such mark or brand to any goods required by law to be marked or branded other than those to which such mark or brand was originally affixed.

436. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment, who

(a.) unlawfully destroys, defaces or injures any register of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials required or authorized by law to be kept in Canada, or any part thereof, or any copy of such register, or any part thereof required by law to be transmitted to any registrar or other officer; or

(b.) unlawfully inserts in any such register, or any such copy thereof, any entry, known by him to be false, of any matter relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death or burial, or erases from any such register or document any material part thereof. R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 43 and 44.

437. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and extracts from liable to ten years' imprisonment, who

registers.

(a.)

(a.) being a person authorized or required by law to give any certified copy of any entry in any such register as in the last preceding section mentioned, certifies any writing to be a true copy or extract, knowing it to be false, or knowingly utters any such certificate;

(b.) unlawfully and for any fraudulent purpose takes any such register or certified copy from its place of deposit or conceals it;

(c.) being a person having the custody of any such register or certified copy, permits it to be so taken or concealed as aforesaid. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 44.

438. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Uttering false liable to seven years' imprisonment, who

(a.) being by law required to certify that any entry has been made in any such register as in the two last preceding sections mentioned makes such certificate knowing that such entry has not been made; or

(b) being by law required to make a certificate or declaration concerning any particular required for the purpose of making entries in such register knowingly makes such certificate or declaration containing a falsehood; or

(c.) being an officer having custody of the records of any court, or being the deputy of any such officer, wilfully utters a false copy or certificate of any record; or

(d.) not being such officer or deputy fraudulently signs or certifies any copy or certificate of any record, or any copy of any certificate, as if he were such officer or deputy. R.S.C., c. 165, ss. 35 and 43.

certificates.

ficates.

439. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Forging certi liable to two years' imprisonment, who—

(a.) being an officer required or authorized by law to make or issue any certified copy of any document or of any extract from any document wilfully certifies, as a true copy of any document or of any extract from any such document, any writing which he knows to be untrue in any material particular; or

(b.) not being such officer as aforesaid fraudulently signs or certifies any copy of any document, or of any extract from any document, as if he were such officer.

440. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment who, with intent to defraud

(a.) makes any untrue entry or any alteration in any book of account kept by the Government of Canada, or of any province of Canada, or by any bank for any such Government, in which books are kept the accounts of the owners of any stock, annuity or other public fund transferable for the time being in any such books, or who, in any manner, wilfully falsifies any of the said books; or

(b.)

Making false books relating

entries in

to public funds.

Clerks issuing

warrants.

(b.) makes any transfer of any share or interest of or in any stock, annuity or public fund, transferable for the time being at any of the said banks, in the name of any person other than the owner of such share or interest. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 11.

441. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and false dividend liable to seven years' imprisonment who, being in the employment of the Government of Canada, or of any province of Canada, or of any bank in which any books of account mentioned in the last preceding section are kept, with intent to defraud, makes out or delivers any dividend warrant, or any warrant for the payment of any annuity, interest or money payable at any of the said banks, for an amount greater or less than that to which the person on whose account such warrant is made out is entitled. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 12.

Printing circulars, &c., in likeness of notes.

442. Every one is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction before two justices of the peace, to a fine of one hundred dollars or three months' imprisonment, or both, who designs, engraves, prints or in any manner makes, executes, utters, issues, distributes, circulates or uses. any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, hand-bill or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any bank note, or any obligation or security of any Government or any bank. 50-51 V., c. 47, s. 2; 53 V., c. 31, s. 3.

Definitions.

PART XXXIII.

FORGERY OF TRADE MARKS-FRAUDULENT MARKING
OF MERCHANDISE.

443. In this part

(a.) the expression "trade mark" means a trade mark or industrial design registered in accordance with The Trade Mark and Design Act and the registration whereof is in force under the provisions of the said Act, and includes any trade mark which, either with or without registration, is protected by law in any British possession or foreign state to which the provisions of section one hundred and three of the Act of the United Kingdom, known as The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883, are, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, for the time being applicable; (b.) the expression "trade description" means any description, statement, or other indication, direct or indirect--

(i.) as to the number, quantity, measure, gauge or weight of any goods;

(ii) as to the place or country in which any goods are made or produced;

(iii) as to the mode of manufacturing or producing any goods;

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