Road Traffic Act 1960

233 Forgery of documents, and c

(1) This section applies to the following documents and other things, namely,—

(a) any licence under any Part of this Act;

(b) any test certificate;

(c) any document, plate or mark by which, in pursuance of regulations made under Part IV of this Act, a vehicle is to be identified as being an authorised vehicle within the meaning of the said Part IV;

(d) any document evidencing the appointment of an examiner or other officer for the purposes of Part IV of this Act;

(e) any certificate of insurance or certificate of security under Part VI of this Act;

(f) any document issued under regulations made by the Minister in pursuance of his power under paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section two hundred and twenty-six of this Act to prescribe evidence which may be produced in lieu of a certificate of insurance or a certificate of security.

(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence who, with intent to deceive,—

(a) forges or alters, or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a document or other thing to which this section applies, or

(b) makes or has in his possession any document or other thing so closely resembling a document or other thing to which this section applies as to be calculated to deceive.

In the application of this subsection to England and Wales, " forges " means forges within the meaning of the Forgery Act, 1913.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under the last foregoing subsection shall be liable—

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ;

(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.