(1) Whosoever commits an offence listed in section 152a(1) with regard to guaranteed payment cards or blank eurocheque forms shall be liable to imprisonment from one to ten years.

(2) If the offender acts on a commercial basis or as the member of a gang whose purpose is the continued commission of offences under subsection (1) above the penalty shall be imprisonment of not less than two years.

(3) In less serious cases under subsection (1) above the penalty shall be imprisonment from three months to five years and in less serious cases under subsection (2) above imprisonment from one to ten years.

(4) Guaranteed payment cards within the meaning of subsection 1 above are credit cards, eurocheque cards, and other cards

1.  the use of which can oblige the issuer to make a guaranteed payment by money transfer; and

2.  which are especially protected against imitation through design or coding.

(5) Section 149 to the extent that it refers to the counterfeiting of money and section 150(2) shall apply mutatis mutandis.