or the association to the purpose of committing one of the crimes thereunder envisaged shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to six years. (6) (New, SG No. 26/2004) The member of an association who, prior to the completion of a false official document or of counterfeiting the content of an official document (where the association has been formed to this goal) or before the circulation of false or counterfeited documents (where the association has been formed to this goal), renounces the respective act and informs the authorities thereof, shall not be punished. (7) (New, SG No. 26/2004) The one who prepares, holds or conceals objects, materials or tools, which he knows or may assume are intended or have served for the compilation or counterfeit of a document under paras 2 and 3, shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to six years. Article 309 (1) A person who himself or through another, draws up a false private document or alters the contents of a private document and uses it to prove that a right or obligation or another relation exists or does not exist, or that it has been terminated or altered, shall be punished for forgery of a document by imprisonment for up to two years. (2) If the object of the crime are securities, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three years. (3) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 101/2017) Where the act under Paragraph 1 is committed to prove that rights in shares, stakes in a company in whole or in part, or in a whole commercial enterprise as a totality of rights, obligations and factual relations exist or do not exist or are terminated or modified, the punishment shall be imprisonment from one to six years. (4) (New, SG No. 101/2017) Where through an act under Paragraph 3 damages in particularly large proportions have been inflicted, constituting a particularly grave case, the punishment shall be imprisonment from one to ten years. The court may rule confiscation of part or of the entire property of the convict to deprive him/her of rights under Article 37 (1) Sub-paragraphs 6 and 7. (5) (New, SG No. 101/2017) In minor cases under Paragraphs 1 and 2 the punishment shall be probation or a fine of BGN 100 or BGN 300, and under Paragraph 3 the punishment shall be imprisonment of up to one year or probation, or a fine from BGN 100 to BGN 300. Article 310 (1) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 26/2004) If the crime under Article 308, paragraph (1) and Article 309, paragraphs (1) and (2) has been committed by an official within his official duties, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to five years, and in cases under Article 308, paras 2 and 3 - imprisonment of up to twelve years, and the court may also rule deprivation of the right under Article 37, paragraph 1, sub-paragraph 6. (2) (New, SG No. 28/1982) In minor cases the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation. Article 311 (1) An official who within his official duties draws up an official document, in which he certifies untrue facts or makes untrue statements, for the purpose of this document to be used as proof of such facts or statements, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to five years, and the court may also rule deprivation of the right under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraph 6.