It is illegal to engrave official seals on Taobao. If it is a company seal, financial seal and other seals with certification effect, generally Taobao stores cannot engrave them. If it is a personal seal used for calligraphy or painting, Taobao stores can engrave it. If there are various seals used in some games that do not involve commercial or certification activities, Taobao will also have them. Private engraving of official seals refers to the act of individuals or other organizations privately engraving official seals of other companies. The official seal is the legal representative symbol of a unit, enterprise, undertaking, group, or school. In order to prevent some illegal persons from engraving official seals privately, committing fraud, undermining national security management activities, and infringing upon the legitimate interests of units, enterprises, groups, and schools, the state has included the engraving industry, including engraving factories, engraving shops, engraving stalls, etc., into a special category The industry shall be subject to the public security organs for public security management. Engraving units and individual employees who violate national management regulations will be subject to public security management penalties or be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law, depending on the nature of the problem and the severity of the circumstances.
Article 280 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" Imprisonment, criminal detention, control or deprivation of political rights, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined. Anyone who 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, and shall also be fined. Anyone who forges, alters, buys or sells resident identity cards, passports, social security cards, driver's licenses and other documents that can be used to prove identity according to law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, , shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined. Article 280-1: In activities that require proof of identity in accordance with national regulations, use forged, altered or stolen resident ID cards, passports, social security cards, driver's licenses, etc. that can be used to prove identity according to law. If the circumstances are serious, he or she shall be sentenced to criminal detention or surveillance, and may also or solely be fined. If the conduct in the preceding paragraph is committed and constitutes other crimes at the same time, the offender shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions on heavier penalties. Article 280-2 Whoever embezzles or assumes the identity of another person to replace the higher education admission qualifications, civil servant recruitment qualifications, or employment placement benefits obtained by others shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, or public surveillance, and shall also be fined. Anyone who organizes or instructs others to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be severely punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. If a state functionary commits the acts in the preceding two paragraphs and constitutes other crimes, he shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of concurrent punishment for several crimes.
Is a contract signed with a private official seal valid?
There is essentially no difference between a privately engraved official seal and a fake official seal. In principle, contracts signed with private seals are usually invalid because they are not authentic. deemed to be a void contract. However, if the counterparty has reason to believe that it is authentic and the counterparty has fulfilled its contractual obligations, the contract may face the possibility of continuing to be valid. The good faith of the counterparty to the contract means that the counterparty to the contract has fulfilled its reasonable duty of inspection and should not and cannot know that the seal stamped on the contract is a private seal without gross negligence. If the legal representative has the authority to sign a contract and the counterparty is in good faith, the contract is fully valid.