(1) Any person who, in any declaration made in the presence of, or produced to the Registrar of Ships or proper officer under this Act, or in any document or other evidence produced to the Registrar or proper officer—
(a) wilfully makes or assists in making or procures to be made any false statement concerning the title to, or ownership of, or the interest in any ship or share in a ship; or
(b) utters, produces or makes use of any declaration or document containing any such false statement, knowing the same to be false, commits an offence and on summary conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1) any person who wilfully makes a false declaration concerning the qualification of himself or herself or of any other person or any body corporate to own a Saint Lucian ship commits an offence and on summary conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) Any ship or share therein which is the subject of any false declaration referred to in subsection (2) shall be subject to forfeiture under this Act, to the extent of the interest therein of the person making the declaration, unless it is proved that the declaration was made without the authority of the person or body corporate on behalf of whom the declaration was made.