Forgery, etc., of documents and fraudulent use
61.—(1)  Any person who forges, or fraudulently alters, or assists in forging or fraudulently altering, or procures or suffers to be forged or fraudulently altered —
(a)any seafarer’s employment agreement, certificate, declaration or other document prescribed by this Act (including replacement or certified copies thereof or certified extracts therefrom) or any entry or endorsement prescribed by this Act to be made in or on any of those documents; or
(b)any document produced to the Director for the purposes of obtaining for himself or any other person any certificate, book or other document issued under this Act (including replacement or certified copies thereof) or for the purposes of obtaining an entry or endorsement in or on any of those documents,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)  Any person who fraudulently uses or allows any other person to fraudulently use —
(a)any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1) which is forged, altered or otherwise false or misleading in any material particular; or
(b)any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1)(a) which has expired or has been cancelled or suspended, or has become invalid for any reason,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(3)  Any person who fraudulently uses any document mentioned in subsection (1)(a) which is issued to or issued in relation to a person and he is not that person named in the document or to which the document relates, shall be guilty of an offence.
(4)  Any person who allows any other person to fraudulently use any of the documents mentioned in subsection (1)(a) which is issued to or issued in relation to a person and that other person is not the person named in that document or to which the document relates, shall be guilty of an offence.
(5)  Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.