{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/9",
  "legislation_title": "Documentary Evidence Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/documentary-evidence-act-1882",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Penalty for forgery.",
  "text": "If any person prints any copy of any Act, proclamation, order, regulation, royal warrant, circular, list, gazette, or document which falsely purports to have been printed under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, or tenders in evidence any copy which falsely purports to have been printed as aforesaid, knowing that the same was not so printed, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3 repealed (E.W., N.I.) (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I GroupI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2) and repealed by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References to penal servitude to be construed as references to imprisonment: Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(1), Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(1) and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/9/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:06.140982+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."
}