Section 45 False or misleading declarations and information.C1C2

an application for a vehicle licence or a trade licence,

a claim for a rebate under section 20, or

an application for an allocation of registration marks,

is required by regulations under this Act to be made in respect of a vehicle which is an exempt vehicle under paragraph 19 of Schedule 2, and

to his knowledge is either false or in any material respect misleading,

is required to be made in respect of a vehicle by regulations under section 22, and

to his knowledge is either false or in any material respect misleading,

is required by F2virtue of this Act to furnish particulars relating to, or to the keeper of, a vehicle, and

furnishes particulars which to his knowledge are either false or in any material respect misleading,

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

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

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

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

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

on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or (except in Scotland) to both.