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Falsifying official documents and false declarations.
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53.—Every person subject to military law who commits any of the following offences, that is to say:—
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(1) The offence of knowingly making or being privy to the making of any misrepresentation or any false or fraudulent statement in any document made, signed, or certified by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy; or
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(2) The offence of knowingly making or knowingly being privy to the making of any false or fraudulent statement; or
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(3) The offence of knowingly suppressing or altering, destroying or making away with any document which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or
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(4) The offence of knowingly making or knowingly being privy to the making of any omission from any document made, signed or certified by him, or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, or from any report or statement made or sent by him, and which it is his duty to make or send, with the intent thereby to defraud or mislead; or
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(5) The offence of refusing, or by culpable neglect omitting, to make or send a report or return which it is his duty to make or send; or
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(6) The offence of making any false declaration in any statement, report or return which it is his duty to make or send, knowing the same to be false,
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shall, on conviction by Court-Martial be liable to suffer imprisonment or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.
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