Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C01241:clause:1_55
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C01241
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 55
Character Range: 84495–85627

55  Falsifying service documents

 (1) A person who is a defence member or a defence civilian is guilty of an offence if, with intent to make a gain for the person or another person or with intent to deceive, or to cause loss, damage or injury to, another person:
 (a) the person makes or signs a service document that is false in a material particular; or
 (b) the person makes in a service document an entry that is false in a material particular; or
 (c) the person alters a service document so that the document is false in a material particular; or
 (d) the person engages in conduct that results in the suppression of, the defacing of, the making away with or the destruction of a service document, or a part of a service document, that it is the person's duty to preserve or produce; or
 (e) the person does not make an entry in a service document that it is the person's duty to make so that the document is rendered false in a material particular.

Maximum punishment: Imprisonment for 2 years.

 (2) In subsection (1):

service document means a document belonging or pertaining to, or connected with, the Defence Force.