Seamen's Fund Winding-Up Act, 1851

Punishment for forgery and personation.

55. Every person who, for the purpose of obtaining, either for himself or for another, any pension, payment, or relief from the fund, fraudulently forges or alters, or procures to be forged or altered, or assists in forging or altering, any certificate or other document purporting to show or assist in showing a right to such pension, payment, or relief, and every person who for the purpose aforesaid fraudulently makes use of any forged or altered certificate or other such document as afore said, or any certificate or other such document as aforesaid not belonging to him, or who for the purpose aforesaid gives or makes or procures to be given or made, or assists in giving or procuring to be given or made, any false evidence or representation, knowing the same to be false, shall be punishable with transportation for seven years, or may be summarily prosecuted before two or more justices, or in Scotland before two or more justices or the sheriff, and punished upon conviction by imprisonment for a person not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.

[S. 56 rep. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 131. s. 26.]