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DEFENCE FORCE DISCIPLINE ACT 1982 - SECT 55 Falsifying service documents

DEFENCE FORCE DISCIPLINE ACT 1982 - SECT 55

Falsifying service documents

  (1)   A person who is a defence member or a defence civilian commits an offence if, with intent to make a gain for the person or another person or with intent to deceive, or to cause loss, damage or injury to, another person:

  (a)   the person makes or signs a service document that is false in a material particular; or

  (b)   the person makes in a service document an entry that is false in a material particular; or

  (c)   the person alters a service document so that the document is false in a material particular; or

  (d)   the person engages in conduct that results in the suppression of, the defacing of, the making away with or the destruction of a service document, or a part of a service document, that it is the person's duty to preserve or produce; or

  (e)   the person does not make an entry in a service document that it is the person's duty to make so that the document is rendered false in a material particular.

Maximum punishment:   Imprisonment for 2 years.

  (2)   In subsection   (1):

"service document" means a document belonging or pertaining to, or connected with, the Defence Force.