Section 356: Personation of person named in certificate - forgery-like offence

(1)Any person who utters any document which has been issued by lawful authority to another person, and by which that other person is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification recognised by law for any purpose, or to be the holder of any office, or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade or business, or to be entitled to any right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, and falsely represents himself or herself to be the person named in the document, commits an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he or she had forged the document.

(2)Any person who, being a person to whom any document has been issued by lawful authority by which he or she is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification recognised by law for any purpose, or to be the holder of any office, or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade or business, or to be entitled to any right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, sells, gives or lends the document to another person with intent that that other person may represent himself or herself to be the person named in the document, commits a misdemeanour.