Enacted parts

ARTICLE 441-6
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Unlawfully obtaining from a public administration or from an institution discharging a public service mission, by any
fraudulent means, any document intended to establish a right, an identity or a capacity, or to grant an authorisation is
punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
The same penalties apply to the submission of a false statement so as to obtain from a public administration or from
an institution discharging a public service mission an allowance, a cash payment or benefit that is not due.
ARTICLE 441-7
Except as otherwise provided in the present Chapter, a penalty of one year's imprisonment and a fine of €15,000 is
incurred by:
1° drafting an attestation or certificate stating materially inaccurate facts;
2° forging an attestation or certificate which was originally genuine;
3° using an inaccurate or forged written attestation or certificate;
The penalty is increased to three years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000 where the offence was committed with
a view to prejudice the Public Treasury or the estate of another person.
ARTICLE 441-8
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
A penalty of two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000 is incurred by any person who, acting in the exercise of
his profession, directly or indirectly makes offers, promises, gifts, donations or advantages of any kind to produce an
attestation or a certificate stating facts that are materially inaccurate.
The same penalties apply to yielding to the solicitations described in the previous paragraph, or the use of acts of
violence or threats, or the direct or indirect proposal of offers, promises, gifts, donations or advantages of any kind to
obtain from a person acting in the exercise of his profession an attestation or certificate stating facts that are materially
inaccurate.
The penalty is increased to five years' imprisonment and to a fine of €75,000 where the person described in the first
two paragraphs is a medical or health practitioner and the written statement containing inaccurate facts conceals or
untruthfully certifies the existence of a sickness, disability or a state of pregnancy, or provides wrongful indications as to
the origin of a sickness or a disability or as to the cause of a death.