Sect. 442. Falsification of registers. 443. Sending false certificate of marriage to registrar. 444. False statements for the purpose of registers of births, deaths, and marriages. 445. Counterfeiting trade marks. CHAPTER XLII.-Preparation for Forgery. 446. Instruments and materials for forgery. 447. Counterfeit stamps. 448. Paper for postal purposes. 449. Paper and dies for postage stamps. CHAPTER XLIII.-Personation. 450. Personation in general. 451. Falsely acknowledging deeds, recognizances, &c. 452. Personation of a person named in a certificate. 453. Lending certificate for personation. Division IV.-Offences connected with Trade and Breach of Contract. CHAPTER XLIV.-Fraudulent Debtors. 454. Fraudulent dealing with property by debtors. PART VII. PREPARATION TO COMMIT OFFENCES: CONSPIRACY: ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT. CHAPTER XLV.-Attempts, Incitements, and Preparation to commit 455. Attempts to commit offences. 456. Punishment of attempts to commit felonies. 457. Punishments of attempts to commit misdemeanours. 458. Punishment of attempts to commit simple offences. 459. Reduction of punishment. 460. Attempts to procure, or solicit or incite to, commission of criminal acts. 461. Preparation to commit crimes with explosives, &c. 462. Neglect to prevent felony. CHAPTER XLVI.-Conspiracy. 463. Conspiracy to commit felony. 464. Conspiracy to commit misdemeanours. 465. Other conspiracies. CHAPTER XLVII.-Accessories after the Fact. 466. Accessories after the fact to felonies. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE PROTECTORATE. PART I. INTRODUCTORY. INTERPRETATION: APPLICATION: GENERAL PRINCIPLES. CHAPTER I.-Interpretation. 1. In this Code, unless the context otherwise indicates :- The term "Company" means an incorporated company; The term "criminally responsible means liable to punishment as for an offence; and The term "criminal responsibility" means liability to punishment as for an offence; The term "dwelling-house" includes any building or structure, or part of a building or structure, which is for the time being kept by the owner or occupier for the residence therein of himself, his family, or servants, or any of them: It is immaterial that it is from time to time uninhabited; A building or structure adjacent to, and occupied with, a dwelling-house is deemed to be part of the dwellinghouse if there is a communication between such building or structure and the dwelling-house, either immediate Construction of terms. Definition of different kinds of harm. or by means of a covered and enclosed passage leading from the one to the other, but not otherwise; The term "explosive substance" includes a gaseous substance in such a state of compression as to be capable of explosion; The term "have in possession" includes having under control in any place whatever, whether for the use or benefit of the person of whom the term is used or of another person, and although another person has the actual possession or custody of the thing in question; “Harm” means any bodily hurt, disease, or disorder, whether permanent or temporary; "Grievous harm" means any harm which amounts to a maim or dangerous harm as hereinafter defined, or which seriously or permanently injures health, or which is likely so to injure health, or which extends to permanent disfigurement or to any permanent or serious injury to any external or internal organ, member, or sense; 46 Dangerous harm” means harm endangering life ; "Maim" means the destruction or permanent disabling of any external or internal organ, member, or sense; "Wound" means any incision or puncture which divides or pierces any exterior membrane of the body; and any membrane is exterior, for the purposes of this definition, which can be touched without dividing or piercing any other membrane; The term "Judicial Officer " includes the Chief Justice and a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, and a Cantonment Magistrate being edgaged in any Judicial Act, or proceeding, or enquiry, and a member of a Provincial Court; The term "knowingly" used in connection with any term The term "Law Officer." means the Attorney General or The term "member of the Police Force " includes any Con- The term "money" includes bank notes, bank drafts, cheques, and any other orders, warrants, authorities, or requests, for the payment of money; The term "night" or "night time means the interval between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning; The terms "Person" and "Owner," and other like terms, when used with reference to property, include corporations of all kinds, and any other associations of persons capable of owning property: They also, when so used, include His Majesty ; The term "Peace Officer" includes any Resident, Assistant Resident, Justice of the Peace, or Cantonment Magistrate, and any Officer of the Police Force; The term "Person employed in the Public Service" includes persons belonging to the Military Forces of the Protectorate and members of the Police Force, and persons employed to execute any process of a Court; It also includes all persons employed, whether temporarily or permanently, in the Public Works Department; The term "Mail" includes any conveyance of any kind by Posts and which postal matter is carried, and also any vessel Telegraphs. employed by or under the Postal Department, or the Postal Authority of any other country, or the Admiralty, for the conveyance of postal matter, whether under contract or not, and also a ship of war or other vessel in the service of His Majesty in respect of letters conveyed by it and also a person or animal used for the conveyance or delivery of postal matter; The term 66 Packet Boat means a Post Office packet employed by or under the Post Office or Admiralty of the United Kingdom, as well as any vessel employed in conveying postal matter by the Postal Department; "Officer of the Postal Department " includes the Postmaster, the Assistant Postmaster, and every agent, officer, clerk, sorter, messenger, letter carrier, post boy, rider, or any other person employed in the business of the Post Office, whether employed by the High Commissioner, or any person on behalf of the Post Office; "Person employed by or under the Postal Department" shall include every person employed in any business of the Post Office according to the interpretation given to "Officer of the Postal Department"; The term "Postal Department means the Department charged with the execution of the laws, and discharge of the duties, relating to public Posts s; The term "Post Master," means the officer charged with the administration of the Postal Department; The term "Postal Matter" includes any letter, newspaper packet, parcel, or other thing, authorised by law to be transmitted by post, which has been posted or received at a Post Office for delivery or transmission by post, and which is in course of transmission by post, and any moveable receptacle which contains any such thing, and which is the course of transmission by post; The term "Postal Matter Bag" includes any bag, or box, or parcel, or other envelope or covering, in which postal matter is conveyed, whether it does or does not contain postal matter; The terms "Post Office" and "Telegraph Office," respectively, mean and include any structure, room, place or receptacle, of any kind, appointed by authority of the Post Master or Director of Telegraphs for the receipt, despatch, or delivery, of any postal matter or telegram, or for the transaction of the business of the Departments relating to Posts and Telegraphs, respectively; The term "Telegraph Department" means the Department charged with the execution of the laws, and discharge of the duties, relating to Public Telegraphs; The term "Director of Telegraphs " means the officer charged with the administration of the Telegraph Department; The term "Telegraph " means a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communications, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe enclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith, for the purpose of telegraphic communications, and includes a telephone, and submarine cable; It also includes any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by means of electric signals, whether with or without the aid of wires; The term "Telegraph works" includes any wire, insulator, or telegraph post, and also any instrument, furniture, plant, office, building, machinery, engine, excavation, work, matter, or thing of whatever description, in any way connected with a telegraph; "Telegraph Post " includes a post, pole, standard, stay, strut, or other above ground contrivance for carrying, suspending, or supporting, a telegraph, and also includes a tree used for a like purpose; The term "Telegram" means any message or other communication transmitted or intended for transmission by telegraph, and includes a written or printed message or communication sent to or delivered at a telegraph office or post office for transmission by telegraph, or delivered or prepared for delivery from a telegraph office or post office as a message or communication transmitted by telegraph for delivery; "Telegraph Official" means any persons employed in the Telegraph Department in and about the reception, trans |