Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803


The Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Prior to its repeal in 2013, it created offences of forgery of foreign instruments in Scotland.

Preamble

The preamble read:

Section 1

In Scotland, this section read:

Repeals

This section was repealed for England and Wales by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830, and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the 24 & 25 Vict c 95.

Sentence

A person guilty of an offence under this section was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Section 2

In Scotland, this section provided:

Repeals

The words omitted were repealed for Scotland by section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948.
This section was repealed for England and Wales by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830, and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the 24 & 25 Vict c 95.

Sentence

A person guilty of a second offence under this section was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Sections 3 to 8

These sections are repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the 24 & 25 Vict c 95.

Repeal

This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by sections 2 and 3 of, and Part 4 of to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. The , contained in the nineteenth report on statute law revision of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission, proposed repealing the Act for Scotland. The whole Act was repealed in Scotland by section 1 of, and Group 4 of of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Act 2013.