- "public duty" means a function that is given to—
- (a) a public officer;
- (b) an employee or a member of a public authority, board or tribunal established by or under written law for the purposes of a public function; or
- (c) a contractor who exercises a function or performs work for the Government or public authority referred to in paragraph (b),
- as such, and includes every person who is in actual possession of the situation of a person referred to paragraph (a), (b) or (c), whatever legal defect there may be in his right to hold that situation.
(2) A person shall be treated for the purposes of this Part as making a false Singapore passport, a false Singapore travel document or a false foreign travel document if he alters a document so as to make it false in any respect (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration or is false in some other respect apart from that alteration).
(3) In this Part, any reference to inducing a person to accept a false document as genuine, or a copy of a false document as a copy of a genuine one, includes a reference to inducing a machine to respond to the document or copy as if it were a genuine document or copy of a genuine one.
Division 2—Offences
Falsifying Singapore passports, etc.
36.—(1) If a person—
- (a) makes a false Singapore passport or a false Singapore travel document; or
- (b) makes a copy of a document which he knows, or ought reasonably to know, to be a false Singapore passport or a false Singapore travel document,
with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to accept it as genuine, and by reason of the other person so accepting it as genuine, dishonestly—
