24U.K.In section 45 of the 1994 Act (false or misleading information) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(3A)A person who, in supplying information or producing documents for the purposes of any regulations made under section 61A—
(a)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
(b)produces or otherwise makes use of a document which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading,
is guilty of an offence.
(3B)A person who—
(a)with intent to deceive, forges, alters or uses a certificate issued by virtue of section 61A;
(b)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
(c)without reasonable excuse makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,
is guilty of an offence.”
25U.K.In section 60(2) of the 1994 Act (orders subject to annulment), after “section 3(3)” there shall be inserted “ , paragraph 18(4) of Schedule 1 ”.