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A person who in order to mislead a public authority provides a false name or otherwise provides false or misleading information on his or her identity, or for this
purpose uses another person’s identity card, passport, driver’s license or other
such certificate, shall be sentenced for giving false identifying information to a fine
or to imprisonment for at most six months.
Section 6 - Fine deception (808/2007)
A person who in order to obtain economic benefit provides a public authority, for
the purpose of imposing a fine, essentially false or misleading information on his
or her income, maintenance liability or other circumstance affecting his or her
solvency, shall be sentenced for fine deception to a fine or to imprisonment for at
most three months.
Section 7 - Registration offence (563/1998)
(1) A person who
(1) in order to cause a legally relevant error in a public register kept by a
public authority, provides false information to that authority, or
(2) in order to gain a benefit for himself or herself or another person, or in
order to cause damage to another person, takes advantage of an error
caused in the manner referred to in paragraph (1),
shall be sentenced for a registration offence to a fine or to imprisonment for at
most three years.
(2) An attempt is punishable.
Section 8 - Providing false documents to a public authority (563/1998)
(1) A person who provides a public authority with a legally relevant false written
document or a comparable technical recording or, after having produced such a
document or recording, gives it to another person to be used for this purpose,
shall, unless a more severe penalty has been provided elsewhere in law for the
act, be sentenced for providing false documents to a public authority to a fine or to
imprisonment for at most six months.
(2) Also a person pursuing an activity under the specific supervision of an authority, the representative or employee of such a person, and an auditor of the corporation under supervision, who during a statutory inspection or when otherwise
fulfilling a statutory reporting duty provides the supervising authority with legally
relevant false oral information, shall be sentenced for providing false documents
to a public authority.
Section 9 - Impersonating a public official (563/1998)
A person who in order to mislead another person
(1) without a legal right undertakes measures that can only be undertaken
by the competent official exercising public authority, or