{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-and-counterfeiting-act-1981/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-and-counterfeiting-act-1981/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/45",
  "legislation_title": "Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-and-counterfeiting-act-1981",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The offence of copying a false instrument.",
  "text": "It is an offence for a person to make a copy of an instrument which is, and which he knows or believes to be, a false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as a copy of a genuine instrument, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person’s prejudice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/45/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:55.287243+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."
}