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The Mines Act, 1923

( ACT NO. IV OF 1923 )

Chapter VIII

PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Falsification of records, etc.
35. Whoever-
 
 
(a) counterfeits, or knowingly makes a false statement in, any certificate, or any official copy of a certificate, granted under this Act, or
 
 
(b) knowingly uses as true any such counterfeit of false certificate, or
 
 
(c) makes or produces or uses any false declaration, statement or evidence knowing the same to be false, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or for any other person a certificate, or the renewal of a certificate, under this Act, or any employment in a mine, or
 
 
(d) falsifies any plan or register or record the maintenance of which is required by or under this Act, or
 
 
(e) makes, gives or delivers any plant, return, notice, record or report containing a statement, entry or detail which is not to the best of his knowledge or belief true,
 
 
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred taka, or with both.

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