Part II Discipline and Trial and Punishment of Air-Force Offences

Miscellaneous offences

62 Making of false documents. C1

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Any person subject to air-force law who—

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makes an official document or official record which is to his knowledge false in a material particular, or

b

makes in any official document or official record an entry which is to his knowledge false in a material particular, or

c

tampers with the whole or any part of any official document or official record (whether by altering it, destroying it, suppressing it, removing it or otherwise), or

d

with intent to deceive, fails to make an entry in any official document or official record, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.

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For the purposes of this section—

a

a document or record 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 or record made by another shall be treated, as well as that other, as the maker of the document or record.

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In this section–

  • “document”includes, in addition to a document in writing—

  • (a) any map, plan, graph or drawing;

  • (b) any photograph;

  • (c) any disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and

  • (d) any film, negative, tape or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable as aforesaid of being reproduced therefrom;

  • “film”includes a microfilm; and

  • “record”includes any account, any information recorded otherwise than in a document by mechanical, electronic or other means and any program in a computer.