Article 280 of the Criminal Law "Whoever forges, alters, buys or sells or steals, distracts or destroys official documents, certificates and seals of state organs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Whoever forges the seal of a company, enterprise, institution or people's organization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
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According to Article 52 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment, anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for more than 10 and less than 15, and may also be fined less than 1000 yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan:
(1) Forging, altering or buying or selling official documents, certificates, certificates and seals of state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations.
Therefore, if the circumstances are minor, criminal responsibility may not be investigated in accordance with the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia _ Crime of privately engraving official seal