International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976

9Forgery of certificates of compliance

(1)Any person who, with intent to deceive—

(a)forges, or alters, or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a certificate of compliance, or

(b)makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling a certificate of compliance as to be calculated to deceive,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—

(i)on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both ;

(ii)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £200.

(2)In the application of this section to England, Wales and Northern Ireland " forges " means forges within the meaning of the [1913 c. 27.] Forgery Act 1913.