Crimes Ordinance
Part X
10-2
Section 84
Cap. 200
Part X
False Certification and Personation
(Format changes—E.R. 4 of 2017)
84.
Making false entry in contract for sale of shares
Any person, whether principal, broker or agent, who wilfully
inserts, in any contract, agreement or token of sale and purchase
made or entered into for the sale or transfer, or purporting to
be for the sale or transfer, of any share, stock or other interest
in the capital stock of any bank, body corporate, company or
society, established by charter or by, under or by virtue of any
Ordinance, issuing shares or stock transferable by any deed or
written instrument, any false entry of the numbers by which the
same are distinguished on the registers or books of such company,
or any names other than those of the persons in whose name such
shares, stock or interest stand as registered proprietors thereof in
the books of such company, shall be guilty of an offence and shall
be liable on conviction upon indictment to a fine of $5,000 and to
imprisonment for 3 years.
(33 of 1935 s. 4 incorporated. Amended 22 of 1950 Schedule; 13
of 1999 s. 3)
[cf. 1867 c. 29 s. 1 U.K.]
85.
Making false entry in bank book, etc.
(1) Any person who, with intent to defraud— (Amended 23 of
1993 s. 4)
(a) makes any false entry or alters any word or figure in
any of the books of account kept at any bank in Hong
Kong or by any body corporate, company or society,
established by charter or by, under, or by virtue of any
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16.11.2017
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