(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.