Singapore legislation

Section 193

of Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Section 193

Forgery, etc., of documents and fraudulent use

(1)

Any person who forges, or fraudulently alters, or assists in forging or fraudulently altering, or procures or suffers to be forged or fraudulently altered any of the following documents:

(a)

any declaration;

(b)

any builder’s certificate, bill of sale or other document or instrument of title to a ship or any share therein;

(c)

any document evidencing the deletion of a ship from its former registry;

(d)

any crew agreement, instrument of mortgage, register, certificate, licence, book, instrument or other document prescribed by this Act (including replacement or certified copies thereof or certified extracts therefrom) or any entry or endorsement prescribed by this Act to be made in or on any of those documents;

(e)

any document produced to the Director for the purposes of obtaining for the person or any other person any certificate, licence, book or other document issued under this Act (including replacement or certified copies thereof) or for the purposes of obtaining an entry or endorsement in or on any of those documents,shall be guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any person who fraudulently uses or allows any other person to fraudulently use —

(a)

any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1) which is forged, altered or otherwise false or misleading in any material particular; or

(b)

any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1)(d) which has expired or has been cancelled or suspended, or has become invalid for any reason,shall be guilty of an offence.

(3)

If any person (A) fraudulently uses any document mentioned in subsection (1)(d) which is issued to or issued in relation to a person and A is not the person named in the document or to which the document relates, A shall be guilty of an offence.

(4)

If any person (A) allows any other person (B) to fraudulently use any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1)(d) which is issued to or issued in relation to a person and B is not the person named in the document or to which the document relates, A shall be guilty of an offence.

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