S.L. 499.52 ст. 44Forgery of licences etc.

(1) No person shall deface or mutilate any licence, permit or certificate issued under these regulations, or alter or obliterate any entry made therein.

(2) Any person who, either by writing, drawing or in any other manner, alter, deface, mutilate or add anything to any licence, permit or certificate issued under these regulations, or uses any licence, permit or certificate which has been altered, defaced, mutilated or added to as aforesaid, shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person who, with the intent to deceive, forges, alters, uses, produces or sends any document required under the provisions of these regulations, or makes a statement or declaration which he knows to be false, shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) Any person who makes use of a registration mark of a small ship other than that allotted by the Authority in relation to that particular small ship shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) A person who is found guilty of an offence under subregulations (1), (2), (3) and (4) shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) not exceeding four thousand, six hundred and sixty euro (€4,660), or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both such fine and imprisonment, unless a higher punishment is applicable under any other law, in which case the Court shall apply that other punishment or this punishment increased by one or two degrees, whichever the higher.