Penalties for offences
15. (1) Whoever obstructs any Sanitary Officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act, or refuses or wilfully neglects to furnish him with the means necessary for making any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any mining settlement, 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.
(2) Whoever makes, gives or delivers any notice or return required by or under this Act which contains a statement, entry or detail which is not, to the best of his knowledge or belief, true, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred taka.
(3) Whoever-
(a) fails to comply with any requisition or order made under any provision of this Act or of any rule, bye-law or order made thereunder; or
(b) contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule, bye-law or order made thereunder, for the breach of which no penalty is otherwise provided,
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred taka, and, in the case of a continuing breach under clause (a) of this sub-section, with a further fine which may extend to fifty taka for every day during which the breach is proved to have been persisted in after the date of the receipt by him of the requisition or order referred to in that clause.
(4) All fines realised under this section shall be made over to the Mines Board of Health at whose instance the prosecution was instituted, to be employed in furtherance of the objects of this Act.