Section 55

If any person forges, or fraudulently alters, or assists in forging or fraudulently altering, or procures to be forged or fraudulently altered, any of the following documents, namely, any register book, builder's certificate, Govern-ment surveyor's certificate, certificate of registry, declara-tion, bill of sale, instrument of mortgage, or certificate of mortgage or sale under this Part, or any entry or endorse-Forgery of documents

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False declara-tions

Crew lists of registered

Brunei ships

Merchant Shipping ment required by this Part to be made in or on any of those documents, that person shall be guilty of an offence: Penal-ty, a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for 2 years.