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• The practice of charging drivers under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act for falsifying tachograph records while abroad has been endorsed by the Court of Appeal.
In a landmark judgement it ruled that the falsification of a tachograph chart which purported to show that a second driver had done part of the driving amounted to the offence of forgery.
The Attorney-General asked the court for a ruling after a crown courtjudge ruled that falsification of a tachograph chart by Coventry coach driver
James Thay did not amour forgery under UK law.
may had pleaded not g to using a false instrurr namely a tachograph ct contrary to the 1981 Fon and Counterfeiting Act (a July-4 Aug1999).
Thay had been drivin coach from the UK thrt Belgium. His tachograph rec indicated that he was tad break from driving as requ by the drivers' hours rq tions and that a second dr had taken over.
In fact They was the only ver in the vehicle.