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Section 37 Penalty for forging certificate, etc.C1

If any person F1... falsifies any certificate, declaration or order F2(including any copy of the same in an approved electronic form) under this Act, or knowingly uses, or gives or sends to any person, as genuine any false ... certificate, declaration or order (including any copy of the same in an approved electronic form)for the purposes of this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words repealed by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45, SIF 39:7), s. 30, Sch. Pt. I

F2

Words in s. 37 inserted (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 3(9)

F3

Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46

Modifications

C1

S. 37 extended with modifications by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. III