# Servants’ Characters Act 1792 (repealed)

32 Geo. 3 c. 56 · revised to 21 July 2008

An Act for preventing the counterfeiting of Certificates of the Characters of Servants.

## Introductory text

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## 1 Any person personating a master, &c. or giving a false character to a servant;

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## 2 or asserting that a servant has been hired for a period of time, or in a station;

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## 3 or was discharged at any other time, or had not been hired in any previous service; contrary to the fact;

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## 4 or any person offering himself as a servant, pretending to have served where he has not served, or with a false certificate, or who shall alter any certificate;

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## 5 or who having been before in service shall pretend not to have been in such service;

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## 8 Offenders discovering accomplices before information indemnified.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/32/56 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/servants-characters-act-1792-repealed
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