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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 98



98.(1) Any person who, with intent to deceive, forges any of the following
documents, that is to say

(a)any application under Part II;

(b)any recommendation for admission or guardianship or medical report under
this Act;

(c)any other document required or authorised to be made for any of the
purposes of this Act;

(2) Any person who wilfully makes a false entry or statement in any
application, recommendation, report, record or other document required or
authorised to be made for any of the purposes of this Act or, with intent to
deceive, makes use of any such entry or statement which he knows to be false,
shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both.

(4) In this section "forge" has the same meaning as in the Forgery Act, 1913.


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