False personation: criminalising assuming another's identity to act in suits or prosecutions, punishable by imprisonment or fine. False personation is criminalised where a person, assuming another's identity, in that assumed character makes admissions or statements, confesses judgment, causes process to issue, becomes bail or security, or performs any other act in a civil suit or criminal prosecution; such conduct is punishable by imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.