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Offences Relating to Documents
(1) A false document/record made wholly or partly through forgery is a "forged" document/record. (2) Fraudulently/dishonestly using a document/record known or believed forged, as genuine, is punished the same as if the user had forged it themselves.
This ensures anyone who USES a forged document as genuine faces the same liability as the person who originally created the forgery.
Someone who knowingly uses a forged identity document to open a bank account faces the same severe liability as the person who originally forged that document.