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Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Offences - False statements, documents, and corruption

55: Falsification of service documents

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"Lying or changing official Armed Forces documents is against the law"

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You can get in trouble if you make a false official document. This includes making or signing a document that you know is false. You can also get in trouble if you alter a document to make it false. You are not allowed to fail to make an entry in a document if you are supposed to. You must not get rid of or destroy a document that you are supposed to keep. An official document can be a book, record, or even a computer file. If you do any of these things, you might go to prison for up to 2 years. This is because you are breaking the rules of the Armed Forces. You must always tell the truth and keep documents honest.

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False statements, documents, and corruption

55Falsification of service documents

  1. Every person subject to this Act commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, who—

  2. makes or signs an official document knowing that the document is false in a material particular; or
    1. makes or signs an entry in an official document knowing that the entry is false in a material particular; or
      1. makes an alteration to an official document with intent to render the document false in a material particular; or
        1. fails to make an entry in an official document with intent to render the document false in a material particular; or
          1. wilfully suppresses, defaces, makes away with, or destroys an official document which he is under a duty to keep or to produce to any person.

            1. For the purposes of this section, the term official document includes a book, record, return, report, map or plan, signal, tape recording, or any form of computer input or output, or any other document or similar material (whether produced mechanically, electronically, or manually, or by any other means whatsoever), which is used by or for the purposes of the Armed Forces.