Making of false documents

Any person subject to military law who39 (a) makes, signs or makes an entry in any report, return, pay list or certificate or other official document, being a document or entry which is to his knowledge false in a material particular; (b) alters any report, return, pay list or certificate or other official document, or alters any entry in such a document, so that the document or entry is to his knowledge false in a material particular, or suppresses, defaces or makes away with any such document or entry which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or (c) with intent to deceive, fails to make an entry in any such document, commits an offence and, on conviction, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act.