{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/52-53/10",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners For Oaths Act 1889",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Forgery.",
  "text": "Whoever forges, counterfeits, or fraudulently alters the seal or signature of any person authorised by or under this Act to administer an oath, or tenders in evidence, or otherwise uses, any affidavit having any seal or signature so forged or counterfeited or fraudulently altered, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or fraudulently altered, shall be guilty of felony, and liable on conviction to penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than five years, or to imprisonment . . . for any term not exceeding two years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8 repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reference to penal servitude to be construed as reference to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/52-53/10/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:23.395218+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}