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Chapter:

200 PDFTitle:CRIMES ORDINANCEGazette Number:13 of 1999
Section:85Heading:Making false entry in bank book, etc.Version Date:01/07/1997

Remarks:

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 13 of 1999 s. 3

(1) Any person who, with intent to defraud-

        (a) makes any false entry or alters any word or figure in any of the books of account kept at any bank in Hong Kong or by any body corporate, company or society, established by charter or by, under, or by virtue of any Ordinance, in which books the accounts of the owners of any money deposited in such bank or of any stock of any such body corporate are entered and kept; or (Amended 13 of 1999 s. 3)
        (b) in any manner falsifies any of the accounts of any such owners in any of the said books; or
        (c) makes any transfer of any share or interest in any such deposit or stock in the name of any person not being the true and lawful owner of such share or interest,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for life.
(2) In subsection (1), "books" (簿冊) includes any disc, card, tape, microchip, sound track or other device on or in which information is recorded or stored by mechanical, electronic, optical or other means. (Added 23 of 1993 s. 4)
(33 of 1935 s. 5 incorporated)
[cf. 1861 c. 98 s. 5 U.K.]