Part 2Vetting and disclosure

Offences relating to confirmation of scheme membership

65F1Falsification of confirmation of scheme membership

(1)

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

(a)

make a document which purports to be a F2confirmation of scheme membership made available under section 54,

(b)

alter F3such a confirmation,

(c)

use, or allow another person to use, F4such a confirmation in a way which suggests that it relates to an individual other than the scheme member in respect of whom it was F5made available.

(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 F6confirmation of scheme membership under section 54, or

(b)

satisfying Ministers that an individual who is F7carrying out a regulated role is not doing so.