Defence Force Discipline Act 1982
55Falsifying service documents
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55 Falsifying service documents
(1) A person who is a defence member or a defence civilian commits an offence if, with intent to make a gain for the person or another person or with intent to deceive, or to cause loss, damage or injury to, another person:
(a) the person makes or signs a service document that is false in a material particular; or
(b) the person makes in a service document an entry that is false in a material particular; or
(c) the person alters a service document so that the document is false in a material particular; or
(d) the person engages in conduct that results in the suppression of, the defacing of, the making away with or the destruction of a service document, or a part of a service document, that it is the person’s duty to preserve or produce; or
(e) the person does not make an entry in a service document that it is the person’s duty to make so that the document is rendered false in a material particular.
(2) In subsection (1):
service document means a document belonging or pertaining to, or connected with, the Defence Force.