CHAPTER
192
PASSPORTS |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Minister may prohibit persons entering or leaving
The Bahamas without passports. |
Passport to have photograph attached. |
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CHAPTER 192 |
PASSPORTS |
An Act
regulating the issue of passports and other matters incidental thereto. | 26 of 1919
43 of 1964
28 of 1968
E.L.A.O., 1974
5 of 1987 |
[Commencement 18th
December, 1919] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Passport Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"Minister"
means the Minister responsible for Passports; |
"passenger"
includes any person carried on a ship other than the master and persons
employed in the work or service of the ship. |
3. Whenever it shall appear to the Minister that it
will be for the public benefit so to do the Minister may by Order prohibit any
person entering or leaving The Bahamas as a passenger unless he has in his
possession a valid passport or some other document satisfactorily establishing
his nationality or identity. | Minister may prohibit persons entering or leaving The
Bahamas without passports. |
4. Every such passport and document as aforesaid shall
have attached thereto a photograph of the person to whom it relates. | Passport to have photograph attached. |
5. The Minister may make rules with respect to any or
all of the following matters- | Rules. |
(a) the mode of
application for passports and the charges thereof; |
(b) the persons
to whom passports will be granted; |
(c) the period
for which passports will be available; |
(d) describing
the method for the renewing of passports; |
(e) generally
for regulating the issuing and granting of passports. |
6. If any person enters or leaves The Bahamas in
contravention of this Act he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction to a penalty of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for
six months. | Penalties. |
7. (1) Whoever- | Forgery of passport. |
(a) forges any
passport; or |
(b) makes any
statement which is to his knowledge untrue for the purpose of procuring a
passport whether for himself or any other person, |
shall be
guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
three hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or
to both such fine and imprisonment. |
(2) The provisions
of section 70 of the Penal Code shall apply in respect of the forgery of a
passport under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section as they apply in
respect of forgery in that Code. |