Safety, Health and Welfare (Offshore Installations) Act, 1987
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Forgery of certificates, etc. |
44.—If any person— | |
(a) with intent to deceive forges, counterfeits or uses any certificate required by, under or for the purposes of this Act or regulations made thereunder or has in his possession a document so closely resembling any such certificate as to be calculated to deceive, | ||
(b) gives or signs any such certificate knowing it to be false in a material particular, | ||
(c) knowingly utters or makes use of any such certificate so forged, counterfeited or false as aforesaid, | ||
(d) knowingly utters or makes use of as applying to any person or offshore installation any such certificate which does not so apply, | ||
(e) personates any person named in any such certificate, | ||
(f) falsely pretends to be an inspector, | ||
(g) wilfully connives at any such forging, counterfeiting, giving, signing, uttering, making use, personating or pretending, | ||
(h) wilfully makes a false entry in any installation logbook or in any register, notice, certificate or other document required by, or for the purposes of, this Act, regulations made thereunder, or a condition subject to which an exemption is allowed pursuant to a regulation made under section 5 (2) (d) of this Act, to be made, kept, served, given or sent, | ||
(i) wilfully makes or signs an entry or declaration which is false and which is required to be made by or under this Act, | ||
(j) knowingly makes use of any such false entry or declaration, | ||
he shall, without prejudice to any other offence, be guilty of an offence under this section. |