(2) In minor cases the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation. Article 312 (1) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) A doctor who provides someone with a false certificate about his health status, where he is not acting as an official, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years or by probation. (2) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) Under the same conditions a veterinary surgeon, who issues a document with untrue contents about the health status of an animal, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or by corrective labour. Article 313 (Amended, SG No. 28/1982) (1) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993, amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) A person who asserts an untruth or holds back a truth in a written declaration or an electronic message which by virtue of a law, decree or regulation of the Council of Ministers are submitted to a state authority for certifying the truth about certain facts, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years or by a fine from BGN 100 to BGN 300. (2) (New, SG No. 10/1993, amended, SG No. 50/1995, SG No. 26/2010) Where the act under paragraph (1) has been committed for the purpose to avoid payment of due taxes, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three years or a fine of up to BGN 1,000. (3) (Renumbered from Paragraph 2, amended, SG No. 10/1993, amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) The punishment under paragraph (1) shall also be imposed on a person who asserts an untruth or holds back a truth in a private document or an electronic message in which under an express provision of a law, decree or regulation of the Council of Ministers he is especially obliged to certify the truth, and uses these documents as proof of the untrue certified facts or statements. (4) (New, SG No. 62/1997) A person who, with reference to public offering of securities in a prospectus or review of the economic position uses untrue beneficial data, or holds back unfavourable data, which is of material importance in making decisions on acquisition of securities, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years and a fine of up to BGN 500. Article 313a (New, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 99/1989, repealed, renumbered from Article 313b, new, SG No. 54/1992, SG No. 10/1993) (1) A person who, in a declaration pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Property of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the Bulgarian National Agrarian Union, the Fatherland Front, the Dimitrov Young Communist League, the Union of Active Fighters Against Fascism and Capitalism, and the Bulgarian Trade Unions, asserts an untruth or holds back a truth in order to prevent completely or in part the appropriation of unlawfully possessed government property, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to eight years. (2) A person who, when duly requested, refuses to submit declaration pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act mentioned in paragraph (1), shall be punished by imprisonment for two to six years. (3) In the cases under paragraphs (1) and (2) the court may also rule deprivation of the rights under Article 37, paragraph (1), sub-paragraphs 6 and 7. (4) The perpetrator under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not be punished, if in disclosing the