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 * (g) cheques;
 * (h) travellers’ cheques;
 * (j) cheque cards;
 * (k) credit cards;
 * (l) certified copies relating to an entry in a register of births, adoptions, marriages or deaths and issued by the Registrar General, the Registrar General for Northern Ireland, a registration officer or a person lawfully authorised to register marriages; and
 * (m) certificates relating to entries in such registers.

(6) In subsection (5)(e) above “share certificate” means an instrument entitling or evidencing the title of a person to a share or interest—
 * (a) in any public stock, annuity, fund or debt of any government or state, including a state which forms part of another state; or
 * (b) in any stock, fund or debt of a body (whether corporate or unincorporated) established in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

Penalties etc.

6.—(1) A person guilty of an offence under this Part of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction—
 * (a) to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or
 * (b) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months; or
 * (c) to both.

(2) A person guilty of an offence to which this subsection applies shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.

(3) The offences to which subsection (2) above applies are offences under the following provisions of this Part of this Act—
 * (a) section 1;
 * (b) section 2;
 * (c) section 3;
 * (d) section 4;
 * (e) section 5(1); and
 * (f) section 5(3).

(4) A person guilty of an offence under section 5(2) or (4) above shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. A2