PART III OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY AND RIGHTS ARISING OUT OF CONTRACTS
TITLE 17 – FORGERY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

246. Everyone who forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing it to be forged or fraudulently altered, any record, writ, return, panel, process, rule, pleading, sentence, order, warrant, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, affirmation, or recognizance, or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any court of record in Guyana, or any document or writing, or any copy of any document or writing, used or intended to be used as evidence therein, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

247. Everyone who—
(a) being the Registrar or clerk of any court of justice, or other officer having the custody of the records thereof, or being the deputy of that Registrar, clerk, or officer, utters any false copy or certificate of any of those records, knowing it to be false; or
(b) being other than the Registrar, clerk, officer or deputy, signs or certifies any copy or certificate of any of those records as the Registrar, clerk, officer, or deputy; or
(c) forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing it to be forged or fraudulently altered, any copy or certificate of any of those records; or
(d) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any copy or certificate, of any of those records, having thereon any false or forged name, handwriting, or signature, knowing it to be false or forged; or
(e) forges the seal of any court of record in Guyana; or
(f) forges or fraudulently alters any process of any court of justice, not being a court of record, in Guyana; or
(g) serves or enforces any forged process of any court of justice, knowing it to be forged, or delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any person any paper falsely purporting to be that process or a copy thereof, or to be any judgment, sentence, decree, or order of any court of justice or a copy thereof, knowing it to be false, or acts, or professes to act, under the false process, knowing it to be false,
shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

248. Everyone who with intent to defraud forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes, or puts off, knowing it to be forged or altered, any summons, conviction, order, or warrant of any magistrate or justice of the peace, or any recognizance purporting to have been entered into before any magistrate or justice of the peace or other officer authorised to take it, or any examination, deposition, affidavit, affirmation, or solemn declaration taken or made before any magistrate or justice of the peace or any commissioner appointed to administer oaths to affidavits, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for three years.

249. Everyone who forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing it to be forged or fraudulently altered, any written instrument which is made evidence by any written law for the time being in force, and for which offence no punishment is herein provided, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

PART IV OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
TITLE 21 – PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

324. Everyone who commits wilful and corrupt perjury, or subornation of perjury, in order to procure the conviction of any person for any indictable offence punishable with death, or imprisonment, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for life.

325. Everyone who commits wilful and corrupt perjury or subornation of perjury, in any case other than that mentioned in the last preceding section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for seven years.

326. (1) Where two or more inconsistent or contradictory statements of fact or alleged fact, material to the issue or matter in question, have been wilfully made on oath by one and the same witness in any judicial proceeding or proceedings, whether before the same Court or tribunal or person or not, such witness shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to fine and to imprisonment for two years.

(2) Upon the trial of any person for an offence under this section, it shall not be necessary to prove the falsity of either of the inconsistent or contradictory statements, but, upon proof that both the statements were made by him, the jury, or the Court, as the case may be, if satisfied that the statements, or either of them, were or was made with intent to deceive the Court, tribunal, or person before whom the statements, or either of them were or was made, shall convict the defendant.

327. Everyone who, being required or authorised by law to make any statement, either upon oath or in any form permitted to be substituted for an oath, thereupon makes a statement which would amount to perjury if made in a judicial proceeding, shall, in any case not expressly provided for by any written law for the time being in force, be guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for two years.