Part 2Vetting and disclosure

Offences relating to vetting information

65Falsification of scheme records etc.

(1)

It is an offence for a person, with intent to deceive, to—

(a)

make a document which purports to be a disclosure record,

(b)

alter a disclosure record,

(c)

use, or allow another person to use, a disclosure record in a way which suggests that it relates to an individual other than the scheme member in respect of whom it was disclosed.

(2)

It is an offence for a person to knowingly make a false or misleading declaration or other statement for the purposes of—

(a)

obtaining, or enabling another person to obtain, a disclosure record, or

(b)

satisfying Ministers that an individual who is doing regulated work is not doing so.