| Type: | Act |
| Short Title: | Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803[1] |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act for preventing the forging and counterfeiting of Foreign Bills of Exchange, and of Foreign Promissory Notes and Orders for the Payment of Money; and for preventing the counterfeiting of Foreign Copper Money. |
| Year: | 1803 |
| Statute Book Chapter: | 43 Geo. 3. c. 139 |
| Territorial Extent: | Scotland |
| Royal Assent: | 11 August 1803 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013 |
| Status: | Repealed |
| Revised Text: | http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo3/43/139/contents |
The Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3. c. 139) was 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.
The preamble read:
In Scotland, this section read:
This section was repealed for England and Wales by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830, and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861.
A person guilty of an offence under this section was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.[2]
In Scotland, this section provided:
The words omitted were repealed for Scotland by section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948.
This section was repealed for England and Wales by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830, and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861.
A person guilty of a second offence under this section was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.[3]
These sections are repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861.
This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by sections 2 and 3 of, and Part 4 of Schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. The Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill 2012, 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 The whole Act was repealed in Scotland by section 1 of, and Group 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013.