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forges, alters or tampers with any passport or internal travel document, or any visa or endorsement thereon, or without lawful authority uses or attempts to use, or has in his possession, any passport or internal travel document which has been so forged, altered or tampered with;

makes any false document intending to use the document as a passport for the purpose of this Act or uses the document for that purpose;

personates or falsely represents himself to be or not to be a person to whom a passport or internal travel document has been duly issued;

with intent to obtain for himself or any other person a passport, internal travel document, or an endorsement or visa on a passport, knowingly makes any false statement or produces any document which is to his knowledge false in any particular;

without lawful authority, has in his possession any passport or internal travel document which has been obtained as a result of making any material statement which was false or misleading, or as a result of the production of false evidence;

allows any person to have possession of any passport issued for his use alone, intending or knowing that the passport may be used by any other person;

without lawful authority, has in his possession any passport or internal travel document issued for the use of some person other than himself;

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wilfully assists any person to enter Brunei Darussalam contrary to this Act;

wilfully assists any person to contravene this Act;

obstructs or hinders any immigration officer, police officer or officer of customs in the discharge of his duty under this Act;

attempts to commit or abets the commission of any offence against this Act, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 5 years.