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Section 167 — Public servant framing an incorrect document or electronic record with intent to cause injury

As in force on 30 December 2025.

Timeline 3 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
  3. 30 December 2025 You are here
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167.Public servant framing an incorrect document or electronic record with intent to cause injury

Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document or electronic record, frames or translates that document or electronic record in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause, injury to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both.