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Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences Relating to Singapore Passports and Travel Documents

47. Offences relating to false foreign travel documents

(1)

If —

(a)

a person makes a false foreign travel document in Singapore, or provides a false foreign travel document to another person in Singapore;

(b)

the person does so with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to use or accept the false foreign travel document as if it were a genuine foreign travel document; and

(c)

by reason of the other person so using or accepting the false foreign travel document as genuine, the person dishonestly —

(i)

obtains a gain (whether for himself or herself or someone else);

(ii)

causes a loss to the other person or someone else; or

(iii)

influences the exercise of a public duty,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)

If —

(a)

a person uses in Singapore a foreign travel document in connection with travel or identification;

(b)

the foreign travel document has been cancelled; and

(c)

the person knows or ought reasonably to have known that the foreign travel document has been cancelled,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.

(3)

If —

(a)

a person uses in Singapore a foreign travel document in connection with travel or identification;

(b)

the foreign travel document was not issued to that person; and

(c)

the person knows or ought reasonably to have known that the foreign travel document was 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.

(4)

If —

(a)

a person (A) provides another person (B) in Singapore with a foreign travel document that was issued to A; and

(b)

A is reckless as to whether the document is or will be used by B in connection with travel or identification,A 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.

(5)

If —

(a)

a person has or retains possession or control in Singapore of a foreign travel document; and

(b)

the person knows that the foreign travel document was not issued to him or her,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.

(6)

If —

(a)

a person has possession or control of a document; and

(b)

the person knows or ought reasonably to have known that the document is a false foreign travel document,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.

(7)

Subsections (2) to (6) do not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Terms defined in this Act

document
Defined · s 2
“document” includes —(a)any paper or other material where there is writing;(b)any paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations that are —(i)capable of being given a meaning by persons qualified to interpret them; or(ii)capable of being responded to by a computer, a machine or an electronic device; or(c)any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device;
Open s 2
foreign travel document
Defined · s 2
“foreign travel document” means —(a)a passport; or(b)a document issued for travel purposes (whether or not also issued for another purpose),that is issued by or on behalf of the government of a foreign country or an international organisation approved by the Minister;
Open s 2
gain
Defined · s 35
“gain” means —(a)a gain in property or a supply of services (whether temporary or permanent); or(b)an opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration or to gain a financial advantage otherwise than by way of remuneration;
Open s 35
loss
Defined · s 35
“loss” means —(a)a loss of property or a supply of services (whether temporary or permanent); or(b)any deprivation of an opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration or an opportunity to gain a financial advantage otherwise than by way of remuneration;
Open s 35
public duty
Defined · s 35
“public duty” means a function that is given to —(a)a public officer;(b)an employee or a member of a public authority, board or tribunal established by or under written law for the purposes of a public function; or(c)a contractor who exercises a function or performs work for the Government or public authority mentioned in paragraph (b),as such, and includes every person who is in actual possession of the situation of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), whatever legal defect there may be in the firstmentioned person’s right to hold that situation.
Open s 35

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47. Offences relating to false foreign travel documents

Terms defined in this Act

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