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WHAT ARE THE OFFENSES RELATING TO PASSPORTS OR TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ?

Under the Passports Act 1966, any person who

• forges, alters or tampers with his passport or internal travel document, or any visa or endorsement thereon, or without lawful authority uses or attempts to use, or has in his possession, any passport or internal travel document which has been so forged, altered or tampered with
• impersonates or falsely represents himself to be or not to be a person to whom a passport or internal travel document has been duly issued
• with intent to obtain for himself a passport, internal travel document, or an endorsement or visa on his passport, knowingly makes any false statement or produces any document which is to his knowledge false in any particular
• without lawful authority, has in possession any passport or internal travel document which has been obtained as a result of making any material statement which was false or misleading or as a result of the production of false evidence
• allows a person to have possession of any passport or internal travel document issued for his use alone, intending or knowing that the passport or internal travel document may be used by any other person
• without lawful authority, has in his possession any passport or internal travel document issued for the use of some person other than himself
• willfully assists any person to enter Malaysia contrary to the Act
• willfully assists any person to contravene the Act or
• obstructs or hinders any immigration officer, police officer or officer of customs in the discharge of his duty under the Act

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding RM$10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both.

Any person contravening any of the provisions of the Passports Act 1966 shall be guilty of an offence and shall, where no other penalty is provided by the Act, be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding RM$10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both.

The Act also provides that any person who

• intent to obtain for any other person a passport, internal travel document, or an endorsement or visa on a passport, knowingly makes any false statement or produces any document which to his knowledge is false in any particular

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than RM$10,000 but not more than RM$50,000 and imprisonment for a term of not less than 1 year but not more than 5 years.

The Act further provides that any person who makes any false document

• intending it to be used by himself or by any other person or
• that is used by himself or by any other person

as a passport for the purposes of entering or leaving Malaysia, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than RM$15,000 but not more than RM$100,000 and imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years but not more than 10 years and with whipping or not more than 6 strokes of the rotan.