Paragraph 24

In section 45 of the 1994 Act (false or misleading information) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsections—

“(3A)

A person who, in supplying information or producing documents for the purposes of any regulations made under section 61A—

(a)

makes a statement which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading or recklessly makes a statement which is false or in any material respect misleading, or

(b)

produces or otherwise makes use of a document which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading,

is guilty of an offence.

(3B)

A person who—

(a)

with intent to deceive, forges, alters or uses a certificate issued by virtue of section 61A;

(b)

knowing or believing that it will be used for deception lends such a certificate to another or allows another to alter or use it; or

(c)

without reasonable excuse makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,

is guilty of an offence.”