Regulation 17 Offences in relation to passportsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

A person is guilty of an offence if the person, otherwise than in accordance with any entitlement, obligation or requirement to do so in these Regulations or the F1Commission Delegated Regulation —

(a)

destroys or defaces a passport;

(b)

alters any entry in a passport;

(c)

makes a forged passport; or

(d)

is knowingly in possession of a forged passport.

(2)

Paragraph 1(d) does not apply if the person, at the time concerned, holds a forged passport simply for the purpose of destroying it or providing it to an authorised officer, the police or the Department.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (31.8.2022) by The Equine Identification (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/200), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(f)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 17 in operation at 29.3.2019, see reg. 1