Council Employee Crimes in Detail

Council Employee Crimes in Detail

Violation of Acts
Below is a list detailing some of the acts violated, resulting in crimes that have been committed by
employees of the council, and by extension, the bailiffs.

County Courts Act 1984

It is a criminal act to deliver papers and documents that falsely pretend to act under the authority of
a court, with a conviction resulting in imprisonment for a term up to 7 years.

County Courts Act 1984, Chapter 28, Part IX, Section 135

135 Penalty for falsely pretending to act under authority of court.
Any person who—
(a) delivers or causes to be delivered to any other person any paper falsely purporting to be
a copy of any summons or other process of the county court, knowing it to be false; or
(b) acts or professes to act under any false colour or pretence of the process or authority of
the county court;
shall be guilty of an offence and shall for each offence be liable on conviction on indictment
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years.

Forgery Act 1913

To submit fake documents that falsely pretend to act under the authority of a court, including
warrants and summonses, is an intentional criminal act of fraud.
Forgery Act 1913, Chapter 27, Section 1, Paragraph (1)
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
(1) For the purposes of this Act, forgery is the making of a false document in order that it
may be used as genuine, and in the case of the seals and dies mentioned in this Act the
counterfeiting of a seal or die, and forgery with intent to defraud or deceive, as the case
may be, is punishable as in this Act provided.

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