Extent Information
E1 The provisions of Schedule 1 are co-extensive with the enactments they amend, see s. 16(6)
2U.K.For section 62 of the Air Force Act 1955 (making of false documents) substitute—
(1)A person subject to air-force law who—
(a)makes an official document which is to his knowledge false in a material particular, or
(b)makes in any official document an entry which is to his knowledge false in a material particular, or
(c)tampers with the whole or any part of an official document (whether by altering it, destroying it, suppressing it, removing it or otherwise), or
(d)with intent to deceive, fails to make an entry in an official document,
is liable on conviction by court-martial to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)a document is official if it is or is likely to be made use of, in connection with the performance of his functions as such, by a person who holds office under, or is in the service of, the Crown; and
(b)a person who has signed or otherwise adopted as his own a document made by another shall be treated, as well as that other, as the maker of the document.
(3)In this section “document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded.”.