Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

Section 134 - Personation

(1) Personation means a false pretence or representation by a person that that person is a different person, whether that different person is living or dead or is a fictitious person.

(2) A person may commit the criminal offence of personation although that person gives or uses that person’s own name, if that is done with intent of being believed to be a different person of the same or of a similar name.

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