Any person who—
| (a) | knowingly or negligently makes a false statement or entry in a document made or signed by him that is required or made for official purposes; |
| (b) | orders any other person to make or sign a statement or entry in a document that is required or made for official purposes, well knowing such statement or entry to be false; |
| (c) | when signing a document that is required or made for official purposes leaves in blank any material part for which his signature is a voucher; |
| (d) | with intent to deceive, alters, defaces, suppresses or makes away with any document required, made, kept or issued for official purposes; or |
| (e) | forges any signature upon any document required, made, kept or issued for official purposes or uses any document for official purposes knowing the signature thereon to be forged, |
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.
