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BOUNTY (PENICILLIN) ACT 1980 No. 47 of 1980 - SECT 21
Offences
21. (1) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail-
(a) to attend before the Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized
person;
(b) to be sworn or make an affirmation; or
(c) to answer a question or produce an account, book, document or other
record, when so required in pursuance of this Act.
Penalty: $1,000.
(2) A person shall not-
(a) knowingly obtain or attempt to obtain bounty that is not payable;
(b) obtain or attempt to obtain payment of bounty by means of a statement
that he knows to be false or misleading or by means of a document
which to his knowledge contains information that is false or
misleading; or
(c) make to an officer or other person doing duty in relation to this Act
or the regulations, a statement that is false or misleading in a
material particular.
Penalty: $2,000 or imprisonment for six months.
(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence against sub-section (2), the
court may, in addition to imposing a penalty under that sub-section, order the
person to refund to the Commonwealth the amount of any bounty wrongfully
obtained by him.
(4) Where a court has made an order under sub-section (3), a certificate
signed by the appropriate officer of the court specifying the amount ordered
to be refunded and the person by whom the amount is payable may be filed in a
court having civil jurisdiction to the extent of that amount and is thereupon
enforceable in all respects as a final judgment of that court.
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