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.
Provisions Preamble The preamble to the act read:
Section 1 In Scotland, section 1 of the act read:
A person guilty of an offence under section 1 of the act was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
Section 2 In Scotland, section 2 of the act provided:
A person guilty of a second offence under section 2 of the act was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
Subsequent developments Sections 1 and 2 of the act were repealed for England and Wales by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 66), which came into force on 21 July 1830.
Sections 1 and 2 of the act as to Ireland and sections 3 to 8 of the act as for the United Kingdom were repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 95), which came into force on 1 November 1861.
The punishment of whipping for a person guilty of an offence under section 2 of the act were repealed for Scotland by section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 58), which came into force on 13 September 1948.
The whole act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by sections 2(1) and 3(1) of, and part 4 of schedule 2 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007, which came into force on 8 May 2007.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The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the group 2 of part 2 of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013, which came into force on 31 January 2013.
See also Forgery Act Scottish criminal law
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List of repeals and amendments in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book.