Section 486: Impersonation of a person named in a certificate

Any person who alters any document which has been issued by lawful authority to
another person, and whereby that other person is certified to be a person possessed of
any qualification recognised by law for any purpose, or to be the holder of any office,
or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade, or business, or to be entitled to any
right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, and falsely represents himself to be
the person named in the document, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is
liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the document.