Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

BERMUDA
1932 : 18

PASSPORT ACT 1932

[28 April 1932]

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

False statements by applicants for passports

1 (1) Any person who makes a statement which to his knowledge is untrue in a declaration required to be made by an applicant for the issue of a passport commits an offence against this Act:

Punishment on conviction on indictment: imprisonment for 2 years or a fine of $5,760 or both such imprisonment and fine.

(2) Any person may, with the previous sanction of the Attorney-General, be prosecuted summarily before a court of summary jurisdiction for an offence against this Act:

Punishment on summary conviction: imprisonment for 6 months or a fine of $1,440 or both such imprisonment and fine.

 

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