Section 18, The Motor Vehicles (Third ~~~rt title arty Insurance) Ordinance

(l) If any person for the purpose of obtaining a certificate Offe~~~s andof insurance or a certificate of security under the provisions pena les. of this Ordinance makes any statement either oral or written which is false or misleading or withholds any material information such person shall, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that he acted without any intent to deceive, be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and be liable, on conviction, to a fine of two hundred pounds or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. {2) Any person who with intent to deceive- . {a) forges, alters, defaces or mutilates any certificate of ~nsurance or certificate of security or any other document Issued under this Ordinance; or (b) uses or allows to be used by any other person any forged, altered, defaced or mutilated certificate of insurance 1360 Cap. 133] Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Penalties. References to certificate to include copies. or certificate of security or any other document issued under this Ordinance; or (c) lends to or borrows from any other person a certificate of insurance or a certificate of security or any other document issued under the provisions of this Ordinance; or (d) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling a certificate of insurance or a certificate of security or any other document issued under the provisions of this Ordinance as to be calculated to deceive; or (e) issues any certificate of insurance or certificate of security or any other document to be issued under the provisions of this Ordinance which is to his knowledge false in any material particular, shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) Any person who is guilty of an offence against this Ordinance for which no special penalty is provided shall, on summary conviction, be liable in respect of a first conviction, to a fine of fifty pounds or six months imprisonment or to both such fine and imprisonment and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of one hundred pounds or to· imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. (4) If any police officer has reasonable cause to believe that any certificate of insurance or certificate of security or any other document produced to him in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance by the driver or owner of a motor vehicle is a document in relation to which an offence under this section has been committed, he may seize the document and when any such document is so seized the driver and the owner of such motor vehicle or either of them shall, if neither of them has been charged with an offence,under the provisions of this section, be summoned before a magistrate to account for the possession of or the presence on the motor vehicle of the said document and the magistrate may make such order respecting the disposal of the document and award such costs as he may deem just.