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Building Societies Act 1965

Miscellaneous provisions

133: False statements in documents

You could also call this:

“Making untrue statements in important papers is against the law”

If you make a false statement on purpose in certain documents, or if you change these documents to make them false, you are breaking the law. This is called making a false statement in documents.

You could get in trouble if you do this. You might have to go to prison for up to 2 years, or pay a fine of up to $1,000, or both.

This rule applies to two types of documents:

  1. Documents that are sent to the Registrar because of this law.
  2. Statements that building societies give out according to section 34 of this law.

Remember, it’s important to always tell the truth in these documents and not change them to make them false.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions

133False statements in documents

  1. If any person wilfully makes, or orders or allows to be made, any false statement in any document to which this section applies, or by erasure, omission, or otherwise wilfully falsifies any such document, he or she commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to both.

  2. This section applies—

  3. to any document sent to the Registrar under or pursuant to this Act; and
    1. to any document consisting of a statement issued by a society pursuant to subsection (1) of section 34.

      Compare
      • 1908 No 18 s 49(1)(c)
      • Building Societies Act 1962 s 112 (UK)
      Notes
      • Section 133(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).