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Part Three. Article 3 469(b) “Illegal entry” shall mean crossing borders without complying withthe necessary requirements for legal entry into the receiving State;(c) “Fraudulent travel or identity document” shall mean any travel oridentity document:(i) That has been falsely made or altered in some material way byanyone other than a person or agency lawfully authorized to make orissue the travel or identity document on behalf of a State; or(ii) That has been improperly issued or obtained through misrepresentation,corruption or duress or in any other unlawful manner; or(iii) That is being used by a person other than the rightful holder;(d) “Vessel” shall mean any type of water craft, including non-displacementcraft and seaplanes, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation onwater, except a warship, naval auxiliary or other vessel owned or operated by a Governmentand used, for the time being, only on government non-commercial service.C. Interpretative notesThe interpretative notes on article 3 of the protocol approved by the Ad HocCommittee and contained in its report on the work of its first to eleventh sessions(see A/55/383/Add.1, paras. 88-90) are as follows:Subparagraph (a)(a) The reference to “a financial or other material benefit” as an elementof the definition in subparagraph (a) was included in order to emphasize that theintention was to include the activities of organized criminal groups acting for profit,but to exclude the activities of those who provided support to migrants forhumanitarian reasons or on the basis of close family ties. It was not the intentionof the protocol to criminalize the activities of family members or support groupssuch as religious or non-governmental organizations.Subparagraph (c)(b) The term “travel document” includes any type of document requiredfor entering or leaving a State under its domestic law and the term “identitydocument” includes any document commonly used to establish the identity of aperson in a State under the laws or procedures of that State.(c) The words “falsely made or altered” should be interpreted as includingnot only the creation of false documents, but also the alteration of legitimate documentsand the filling in of stolen blank documents. Furthermore, the intention wasto include both documents that had been forged and genuine documents that hadbeen validly issued but were being used by a person other than the lawful holder.