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Last Updated: 1 December 2016
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF SHIPS IN FIJI AND RELATED MATTERS
[SHR 82] Making false documents82
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- (a)makes any register book, certificate, bill of sale, mortgage instrument or other document under this Act, knowing the same to be false or misleading; or
- (b)forges or fraudulently alters any such document, or assists any other person to do so, or procures the forgery or fraudulent alteration of any such document,
commits an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine not exceeding $10,000.
(2) Any person, who prints, sells or uses any document purporting to be a form prescribed in the regulations knowing that the document is not in fact a form that is for the time being prescribed, commits an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $5,000.