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Forgery Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom which relates to forgery and similar offences. The bill for an act with this short title may have been known as a Forgery Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Forgery Act 1562 (repealed) 5 Eliz. 1. c. 14. 10 April 1563. An Act against the forging of evidences and writings. (Repealed by Forgery Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4. & 1 Will ...
This had previously been high treason under the Forgery Act 1830. The 1861 Act reduced the penalty from death to penal servitude for life. This section was repealed as to England and Ireland by section 20 of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Forgery Act 1913. It was however replaced with section 5 of that Act, which made similar provision.
Of these statutes, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act, the Larceny Act and the Coinage Offences Act have been repealed in England and Wales. The majority of the provisions of Accessories and Abettors Act, the Malicious Damage Act and the Forgery Act have been repealed and the last two have been practically superseded by codification Acts. However ...
[5] For offences akin to forgery, see English criminal law#Forgery, personation, and cheating. The common law offence of forgery is abolished for all purposes not relating to offences committed before the commencement of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. [6]
Doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice – a.k.a. perverting the course of justice, defeating the ends of justice, obstructing the administration of justice; Concealing evidence, contrary to section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967; Contempt of court, specifically criminal contempt
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on unrelated charges.
The Forgery, Abolition of Punishment of Death Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. c. 123) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that for the United Kingdom the death penalty for all offences of forgery , except for forging wills and certain powers of attorney .