(1) Whosoever for the purpose of deception in legal commerce

1.  produces a counterfeit technical record or falsifies a technical record or

2.  uses a counterfeit or falsified technical record

shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine.

(2) A technical record shall mean a presentation of data, measurements or calculations, conditions or sequences of events, which, in whole or in part, is produced automatically by a technical device, allows the object of the record to be recognised either generally or by informed persons and is intended as proof of a legally relevant fact, regardless of whether this was already the purpose of the presentation when it was produced or only later.

(3) It shall be equivalent to the production of a counterfeit technical record if the offender influences the result of the record by interfering with the recording process.

(4) The attempt shall be punishable.

(5) Section 267(3) and (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.