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Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences Relating to Singapore Passports and Travel Documents
38. Bringing, taking or sending false Singapore passports, etc., across international borders
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If —
(a)
a person —
(i)
brings a document into a country;
(ii)
takes a document out of a country; or
(iii)
sends a document to or from a country; and
(b)
the person knows or ought reasonably to have known that —
(i)
the document is a false Singapore passport or a false Singapore travel document; or
(ii)
the document is a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document that is not issued to that person,the person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.