Singapore legislation

Section 41

of Civil Defence Act 1986

Section 41

Falsification, etc., of service documents

Amended by32/2010

(1)

Any person who with a view to gaining for himself or herself or another or with intent to deceive another or cause loss to another —

(a)

makes or signs a service document that is false in a material particular;

(b)

makes in a service document an entry that is false in a material particular;

(c)

alters a service document so that the document is false in a material particular;

(d)

suppresses, defaces, makes away with or destroys a service document, or a part of a service document, that it is his or her duty to preserve or produce; or

(e)

does not make an entry in a service document that it is his or her duty to make,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or any other punishment authorised by this Act.

(2)

In this section, “service document” means —

(a)

any document which is the property of the Force; or

(b)

any document submitted to the Force for any purpose,and includes any such document in the form of an electronic record, and a reference to signing of a service document is deemed to include the application of an electronic signature to an electronic record.

Amended by32/2010

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