PART VI

OFFENCES

 

                40.          False statements or declarations  -  Every person who knowingly and wilfully makes a false statement in any claim, application, declaration or objection for the purposes of Part III, Part IV or Part V of this Act shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.

 

                41.                Wilfully misleading Registrar  -  (1)  Every person shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months who:

 

(a)                 Wilfully misleads any Registrar in the compilation of any roll, or wilfully enters or causes to be entered thereon any false or fictitious name or qualification or the name of any person whom he knows to be dead; or

 

(b)                 Signs the name of any other person, whether requested to do so or not, or any false or fictitious name, to any form of claim, application, declaration or objection for the purposes of Part III, Part IV or Part V of this Act either as claimant, applicant, declarant, objector or witness; or

 

(c)                 Signs his name as witness to any signature upon any such form of claim, application, declaration or objection without either seeing the signature written or hearing the person signing declare that the signature is in his own handwriting and that the name so signed is his own proper name.

 

(2)           It shall be the duty of the Registrar to institute a prosecution against any person whom he believes to have committed any offence against this section, or the offence of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of any such offence by any person.

 

                42.                Failure to deliver claim or application  -  Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $40 who, having obtained possession of a claim or application for registration signed by any other person for the purpose of being delivered to the Registrar for registration, wilfully or negligently fails so to deliver it so that the claimant’s or applicant’s name is not entered on the roll in question.

 

                43.                Misfeasance of Registrar  -  Every Registrar who knowingly and wilfully does anything contrary to the provisions of Part III, Part IV, or Part V of this Act or who knowingly and wilfully omits to do anything required by Part III, Part IV or Part V of this Act to be done by him, shall be liable if no other penalty is elsewhere in this Act provided, to a fine not exceeding $40.