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17.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the person, otherwise than in accordance with any entitlement, obligation or requirement to do so in these Regulations or the Commission Implementing Regulation—
(a)destroys or defaces a passport;
(b)alters any entry in a passport;
(c)makes a forged passport; or
(d)is knowingly in possession of a forged passport.
(2) Paragraph 1(d) does not apply if the person, at the time concerned, holds a forged passport simply for the purpose of destroying it or providing it to an authorised officer, the police or the Department.
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