Singapore legislation
Clause 87
Clause 87
Repeal and re-enactment of section 464
Section 464 of the Penal Code is repealed (excluding the illustrations and Explanations) and the following section substituted therefor:“Making a false document or false electronic record464.—
A person is said to make a false document or false electronic record ––
who dishonestly or fraudulently ––
makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document;
makes any electronic record or part of any electronic record;
affixes any electronic signature on any electronic record; or
makes any mark denoting the execution of a document or the authenticity of the electronic signature,with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document or electronic record or part of a document or electronic record or electronic signature was made, signed, sealed, executed or affixed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed, executed or affixed, or at a time at which he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed, executed or affixed;
who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document or an electronic record in any material part thereof, after it has been made, executed or affixed with an electronic signature, either by himself or by any other person, whether that person is living or dead at the time of the alteration; or
who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document or an electronic record or to affix his electronic signature on an electronic record, knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot, or that by reason of deception practised upon him he does not, know the contents of the document or electronic record or the nature of the alteration.(2) In this section, “electronic signature” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88).”.