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Merchant Shipping Act (No. 52 of 1971) - Sect 156

Penalty for forgery of certificate or declaration

156. Any person who- shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof shall be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding three thousand rupees, or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(a) knowingly and wilfully makes or assists in making or procures to be made a false or fraudulent certificate or declaration of survey issued under section 147; or
(b) forges, assists in forging, procures to be forged, fraudulently alters, assists in fraudulently altering or procures to be fraudulently altered any such certificate or declaration,


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