Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)Chapter IX : Offences, Penal Provisions and Legal Procedure315. Forgery and other fraudulent acts |
No person shall—
| (a) | forge any document issued under this Act; or |
| (b) | make any false representation for the purpose of procuring the issue of any document under this Act, or for the purpose of inducing any person to do any act which by this Act he is authorized to do; or |
| (c) | produce or otherwise put off any forged document purporting to be a document issued under this Act, which he knows to be forged; or |
| (d) | knowingly produce or otherwise use any document issued under this Act which has been cancelled or suspended or which has expired or to which he is not entitled; or |
| (e) | make in any document, produced or delivered to any person authorized to receive it under this Act, any statement which he knows is untrue in any particular; or |
| (f) | produce or deliver any document which contains any statement which he knows is untrue in any particular to any person authorized to receive it under this Act; or |
| (g) | lend to any person who he knows is not entitled thereto a document issued under this Act or allow any such document to be used by any such person. |