Section 339. Forgery of judicial or official document
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Section 340. Forgeries punishable by imprisonment for seven years
(1) In this section, the term "stamp" means any stamp used for the purposes of revenue or by any Government department.
(2) Any person who–
(a) forges any stamp whether impressed or adhesive;
(b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making the impression of any stamp;
(c) fraudulently cuts, tears in any way, or removes from any material any stamp with intent that another use shall be made of the stamp or any part of it;
(d) fraudulently mutilates any stamp with intent that another use shall be made of the stamp;
(e) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any such stamp a stamp or part of a stamp which whether fraudulently or not has been cut, torn or in any way removed from any other material or out of or from any other stamp;
(f) fraudulently erases or otherwise either really or apparently removes from any stamped material any name, sum, date or other matter or thing whatsoever written thereon with intent that another use shall be made of the stamp upon that material; or
(g) 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 really or apparently removed,
is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Section 341. Making or having in possession paper or implements for forgery
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse, proof whereof lies upon him–
(a) makes, uses or knowingly has in his custody or possession any paper intended to resemble and pass as special paper such as is provided and used for making any currency note or bank note;
(b) makes, uses or knowingly has in his custody or possession, any frame, mould or instrument for making such paper, or for producing in or on such paper any words, figures, letters, marks, lines or devices peculiar to and used in or on any such paper;
(c) engraves or anywise makes upon any plate, wood, stone or other material, any words, figures, letters, marks, lines or devices, the print whereof resembles in whole or in part any words figures, letters, marks, lines or devices peculiar to and used in or on any currency note or bank note or in or on any document entitling or evidencing the title of any person to any share or interest in any public stock, annuity, fund or debt of any part of the Commonwealth or of any foreign state, or in any stock, annuity, fund or debt of any body corporate, company or society, whether within or without the Commonwealth;
(d) uses or knowingly has in his custody or possession any plate, wood, stone or other material, upon which any such words,figures, letters marks, lines or devices have been engraved or in anywise made as aforesaid; or
(e) uses or knowingly has in his custody or possession, any paper upon which any such words, figures, letters, marks, lines or devices have been printed or in anywise made as aforesaid,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.