Factories Act 1961

159 Forgery of certificates, false entries, and false declarations

If any personal—

(a) forges or counterfeits any certificate required by, under, or for the purposes of, this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder;

(b) gives or signs any such certificate knowing it to be false in any material particular;

(c) knowingly utters or makes use of any such certificate so forged, counterfeited, or false as aforesaid;

(d) knowingly utters or makes use of as applying to any person any such certificate which does not so apply;

(e) personates any person named in any such certificate; (f) falsely pretends to be an inspector;

(f) wilfully makes or signs a false declaration required by, under or for the purposes of this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder;

(g) wilfully connives at any such forging, counterfeiting, giving, signing, uttering, making use, personating or pretending as aforesaid;

(h) wilfully makes a false entry in any register, notice, certificate, or document required by, under or for the purposes of this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder to be kept or served or sent;

(j) wilfully makes or signs a false declaration required by, under or for the purposes of this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder ;

(k) knowingly makes use of any such false entry or declaration as aforesaid;

he shall, without prejudice to any other penalty, be guilty of an offence under this Act, and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.