Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter II
Section 28
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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.
Explanation 1 -
It is not essential to counterfeiting that the imitation should be exact.
Explanation 2 -
When 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.
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