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Forgery
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53. (1) A person shall not forge a document purporting to be—
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(a) a veterinary prescription,
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(b) a licence under this Part, or
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(c) a record required to be kept, or any other document issued or maintained, under regulations made under this Part,
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(which is, in this section, referred to as a “forged document”).
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(2) A person shall not forge an endorsement or other entry purporting to be for any purpose of this Act on any document whatsoever required to be kept for the purposes of this Part (which document with such entry in this section is referred to as a “falsely endorsed document”).
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(3) A person shall not, with intent to deceive, create or alter—
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(a) a veterinary prescription,
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(b) a licence under this Part, or
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(c) a record required to be kept or any other document issued or maintained under regulations made under this Part,
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(which document if so altered is, in this section, referred to as an “altered document”).
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(4) A person shall not utter a forged document, a falsely endorsed document or an altered document.
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(5) A person shall not have in his or her possession or under his or her control, a forged document, a falsely endorsed document or an altered document.
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(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to—
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(a) an authorised officer or a member of the Garda Síochána or an officer of customs, when acting in the course of his or her duty, or
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(b) a person who has taken into his or her possession a document for the purpose of—
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(i) preventing another from committing or continuing to commit an offence, or
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(ii) delivering it into the custody of a person specified in paragraph (a).
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(7) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable—
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(a) on summary conviction, to a class A fine, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both, or
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(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €50,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.
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