Section 18Part 0 —
Forgery of certificate
←→ Navigate · Click subsection badges to collapse · Press ? for help
A person who, with intent to deceive —
alters or uses, or lends to or allows to be used, by any other person, a certificate of insurance under this Law; or
makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for two years.
A person who, for the purpose of obtaining the issue of a certificate of insurance under this Law, knowingly makes any false statement or knowingly withholds any material information, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months, and in default of payment of such fine to imprisonment for six months.
A person who issues a certificate of insurance which to his knowledge is false in any material particular commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months, and in default of payment of such fine to imprisonment for six months.
If any member of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has reasonable cause to believe that any certificate of insurance produced to him under this Law by the driver of a vehicle is a document, in relation to which an offence under this section has been committed, he may seize the document, and when any document is so seized, the person from whom it was taken shall, unless the document has been previously returned to him or he has previously been charged with an offence under this section, be summoned before a summary court to account for his possession of the said document, and the court shall make such order respecting the disposal of the said document and award such costs as the justice of the case may require.
In this section —
"certificate of insurance" includes any document issued under regulations made by the Governor in Cabinet under section 6 to prescribe evidence which may be produced in lieu of a certificate of insurance.
Defined Terms
certificate of insurance