Specific Acts Constituting Document Falsification by Officials
- Counterfeiting or imitating handwriting, signatures, or rubrics.
- Falsely showing that persons participated in acts or proceedings when they did not.
- Attributing to participants statements they did not make.
- Making untruthful narrations of facts.
- Altering true dates on documents.
- Altering or intercalating genuine documents to change their meaning.
- Issuing authenticated documents claiming to be copies of originals that do not exist or that differ from the original.
- Intercalating instruments or notes related to document issuance in official protocols or registries.
Application to Ecclesiastical Ministers
- Ecclesiastical ministers committing these falsifications affecting civil status or producing non-ecclesiastical legal effects are subject to the same penalties as public officers.
Penalties for Private Individuals Falsifying Documents
- Private individuals falsifying public or official documents, letters of exchange, or commercial documents face prision correctional in its maximum degree.
- They are also liable to pay a fine between 250 and 12,500 pesetas.
Legal Effectivity
- The amendments take effect immediately upon passage on March 17, 1917.