Section 30Part 6 — OFFENCES
Providing misleading information
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A person who —
provides false information or makes a false statement when —
providing information for any application, request, notification or submission under this Act;
providing information for the authentication or verification of any information required to be authenticated or verified under this Act; or
obtaining the issue or replacement of a Cayman Islands Identification Card;
fraudulently obtains a Cayman Islands Identification Card for the use of that person;
forges an identity document for the purpose of obtaining a Cayman Islands Identification Card;
falsely reports the loss or destruction of that person's Cayman Islands Identification Card and applies for a new Cayman Islands Identification Card while being in possession of a Cayman Islands Identification Card; or
tampers with the database used to store the information for the Cayman Islands Identification Card by —
causing an unauthorized modification of information to be made to an entry in the database; or
preventing or delaying the retrieval of relevant information in a legible form from a computer or data processing device used for the purposes of this Act,
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term of two years, or to both.
For purpose of subsection (1), a person provides false information if at the time of the provision of the information the person —
knew or reasonably ought to have known the information to be false; or
was reckless as to the veracity of the information.