A person is said to “counterfeit” who causes one thing to resemble another thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practised.
Section history
Section 28 — “Counterfeit”
As in force on 1 March 2022.
Timeline 3 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 30 November 2008 Revised edition
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Explanation 1.—It is not essential to counterfeiting that the imitation should be exact.
Explanation 2.—Where a person causes one thing to resemble another thing and the resemblance is such that a person might be deceived thereby, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that the person so causing the one thing to resemble the other thing intended by means of that resemblance to practise deception or knew it to be likely that deception would thereby be practised.