Regulation 15 ProhibitionsI1

Scotland

(1)

No person other than a passport issuing organisation acting in the course of its duties shall without lawful authority–

(a)

destroy or deface a passport;

(b)

alter any entry made in Section I of the passport;

(c)

alter any of the details in Sections II or III of the passport unless authorised in writing to do so by a passport-issuing organisation;

(d)

make an entry in Section IV of the passport except in accordance with the rules and regulations of a passport-issuing organisation, and no person shall alter any entry; or

(e)

alter any details in Sections V, VI, VII, VIII or IX of the passport.

(2)

No person shall without lawful authority possess a passport which that person knows to be false.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 15 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)