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What does Falsify mean?

To 'falsify' is to 'make false'.

In the context of the offence of forgery, reference must be made to the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, s 9, which exhaustively defines when an instrument is false for the purposes of that Act. The governing notion is that the instrument must not only tell a lie, it must tell a lie about itself, so that telling a lie in an application for employment is not caught but supplying a fake reference is.

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