Section 487: Lending, etc., certificate for impersonation

Any person who, being a person to whom any document has been issued by lawful
authority whereby he 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, sells, gives or lends the document to another person with intent that that other
person may represent himself to be the person named therein, is guilty of a felony and
is liable to imprisonment for three years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.