Singapore legislation
Clause 77
Clause 77
False statements, forging of licences, etc
(1)
If any person —
for the purpose of obtaining under the provisions of this Ordinance the grant of any licence to himself or to any other person or the variation of any licence or for the purpose of preventing the grant or variation of any licence or of procuring the imposition of any condition or limitation in relation to a licence makes any statement or declaration which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading; or
furnishes any particulars in connection with a change of the registration of any vehicle which to his knowledge are false or in any material respect misleading; or
makes any entry in a record, register or other document required to be kept under this Ordinance and the rules made thereunder which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading,he shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2)
If any person —
forges or alters or defaces or mutilates or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, any mark, plate or document which is required under this Ordinance to be carried on a vehicle or trailer, any registration book or any licence issued under this Ordinance; or
makes or has in his possession any mark, plate or document so closely resembling a licence or any mark, plate or document as aforesaid as to be calculated to deceive; or
alters any entry made in a record, register or other document kept under this Ordinance or any rules made thereunder; or
exhibits upon any vehicle or trailer any licence or identification mark, plate or document which has been forged, altered, defaced, mutilated or added to or any colourable imitation of a licence, mark, plate or document which is required under this Ordinance to be carried on a vehicle or trailer; or
transfers or affixes to any vehicle or trailer for which it was not issued any licence, identification mark, plate or document which is required under this Ordinance to be carried on a vehicle or trailer; or
uses any forged, altered, defaced or mutilated driving licence or any driving licence to which any addition not authorized by this Ordinance has been made; or
alters, defaces, conceals or obliterates any endorsement on a driving licence,he shall, unless he establishes to the satisfaction of the court that he acted without intent to deceive, be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3)
The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to a document evidencing the appointment of an officer for the purposes of this Ordinance as they apply in relation to a licence.
(4)
If any police officer or the Registrar or officer authorized by him in writing has reasonable cause to believe that a document carried on a motor vehicle or any licence or record or other document produced to him in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance is a document in relation to which an offence under this section has been committed, he may seize the document and when any document is seized under this section either the driver or the owner of the vehicle shall, if the document is still detained and neither of them has previously been charged with an offence under this section, be summoned before a Magistrate’s Court or District Court to account for his possession of or the presence on the vehicle of the said document, and the Court shall make such order respecting the disposal of the said document and award such costs as the justice of the case may require.
(5)
For the purposes of subsection (4) of this section, the expression “document” shall include a plate and the power to seize shall include power to detach from the vehicle. [78]