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Offences of unlawfully withholding identification papers

Cap. 108:01, s. 23 · Revised Edition 2020

A person who, acting or purporting to act as another person’s employer, manager, supervisor, contractor, employment agent or solicitor of clients, knowingly procures, destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates or possesses any passport, birth certificate, immigration document or other governmental document, actual or purported, belonging to another person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of five years or to both. 22
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Offences of unlawfully withholding identification papers — Cap. 108:01 s. 23 · Belize Law