PECA 2016 § 13 — Electronic forgery

Statutory text (English)

(1) Whoever interferes with or uses any information system, device
or data, with the intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to make any illegal
claim or title or to cause any person to part with property or to enter into any express or implied
contract, or with intent to commit fraud by any input, alteration, deletion, or suppression of data,
resulting in unauthentic data with the intent that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if
it were authentic, regardless of the fact that the data is directly readable and intelligible or not, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with
fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty thousand rupees or with both.

(2) Whoever commits offence under sub-section

(1) in relation to a critical infrastructure
information system or data shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven
years or with fine which may extend to five million rupees or with both.

Source and verification

Source citation: PECA 2016 (Act XL of 2016) s.13: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PREVENTION OF ELECTRONIC CRIMES ACT, 2016' (incl. Act XXXVII of 2023 & Act II of 2025 amendments), p. 20, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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• Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 20) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment version…

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