Falsification of Accounts Act 1875
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1875 c. 24,38 & 39 Vict. c. 24 |
| Year | 1875 |
Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875
(38 & 39 Vict.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to amend the Law with reference to the Falsification of Accounts.
[29th June 1875]
W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law so as to punish the falsification by clerks, officers, servants, and others of their employers accounts, books, writings, or documents:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Punishment for falsification of accounts, &c.
1. That if any clerk, officer, or servant, or any person employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer, or servant, shall wilfully and with intent to defraud destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security, or account which belongs to or is in the possession of his employer, or has been received by him for or on behalf of his...
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