State Grants (President’s Signature) Act (Cap. 62:04)

LAWS OF GUYANA State Grants (President’s Signature) 3Cap. 62:04 L.R.O. 3/1998 CHAPTER 62:04 STATE GRANTS (PRESIDENT’S SIGNATURE) ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. President’s signature may be attached by stamp or facsimile. 3. President’s signature to State grants and leases when attached by stamp to be attested by Commissioner of Lands or other officer. 4. Offences. An Act to authorise the President’s Signature to State Grants and Leases to be attached by a Stamp. [31ST DECEMBER, 1930] 1. This Act may be cited as the State Grants (President’s Signature) Act. 2. It shall be lawful for the President in all State grants and leases of land hereafter to be made by him, to cause his signature thereto to be attached by means of a stamp or facsimile of his sign manual, and grants and leases so signed shall be of the same effect, force, and validity to all intents and purposes as if the said grants and leases bore the actual autograph or sign manual of the President: Provided always that all such grants and leases shall be countersigned by the Commissioner of Lands or other person duly appointed by the President in that behalf. 3. Whenever the President shall, by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by section 2, cause his signature to be attached to any State grant or lease of land by means of a stamp or facsimile of his sign manual, every such signature shall be so attached in the presence of the 1953 Ed. c. 178 42 of 1930 Short title. President’s signature may be attached by stamp or facsimile. President’s signature to State grants and leases when attached LAWS OF GUYANA State Grants (President’s Signature)Cap. 62:044 Commissioner of Lands, or of some other officer duly authorised by the President on that behalf, who shall certify on the face of such State grant or lease that the President’s signature was so attached in his presence. 4. Every person— (a) who shall without authority of the President obtain possession of, or who shall without authority of the President affix, the stamp or facsimile of the sign manual of the President to any document purporting to be a State grant or lease of land; or (b) who shall forge, counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any die, plate, or other instrument or any part of any die, plate, or other instrument which has been or shall or may be provided, made, or used by or under the direction of the President (or by or under the direction of any person or persons legally authorised in that behalf) for the purpose of attaching his signature to State grants or leases in manner aforesaid; or (c) who shall forge, counterfeit, or imitate, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or imitated, the stamp, mark, or impression of any such die, plate, or other instrument which has been or shall or may be provided, made, or used as aforesaid upon any parchment, paper, or other substance or material whatever; or (d) who shall knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall be on the person accused) have in his possession any false, forged or counterfeit die, plate, or other instrument or part of any such die, plate or other instrument resembling or intended to resemble either wholly or in part any die, plate, or other instrument which has been or shall or may be provided, made, or used as aforesaid; or (e) who shall stamp or mark or cause or procure to be stamped or marked any parchment, paper, or other substance or material whatsoever with any such false, forged, or counterfeited die, plate, or other instrument or part of any such dies plate, or other instrument; or by stamp to be attested by Commissioner of Lands or other officer. Offences. LAWS OF GUYANA State Grants (President’s Signature) 5Cap. 62:04 L.R.O. 3/1998 (f) who shall knowingly utter, offer, dispose of, or put off, or shall knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall be on the person accused) have in his possession any parchment, paper, or other substance or material having thereon the impression or any part of the impression of any such false, forged, or counterfeit die, plate, or other instrument or part of any such die, plate, or other instrument as aforesaid, or having thereon any false, forged or counterfeit stamp or impression resembling or representing either wholly or in part or intended or liable to pass or be mistaken for any stamp, mark, or impression of any such die, plate, or other instrument which has been or shall or may be so provided, made, or used as aforesaid, shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.