Section 156Part 13 — Miscellaneous
Offences
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Whoever —
knowingly misleads or deceives any person authorised by or under this Law to require information in respect of any land or interest in land;
fraudulently issues or makes, or fraudulently procures the issue or making, of any certificate or other document, or any registration, or any erasure or alteration in any certificate or other document or in any register;
fraudulently uses, assists in fraudulent using or is privy to the fraudulent use of any instrument or form purporting to be issued or authorised by the Registrar; or
causes any defacement, obliteration, mutilation or unauthorised entry or alteration to be made on or in any register or filed instrument,
is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years.
Whoever, after the delivery to him of a summons to attend before the Registrar or to produce any document, neglects or refuses without reasonable cause to attend in accordance with the summons, or to produce any document which he is required by the summons to produce, or to answer upon oath or otherwise any question which is lawfully put to him by the Registrar under the powers conferred by this Law, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars.