61. Section 119 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
| 119. If any person shall make and subscribe any declaration, certificate, or other instrument required by this Ordinance to be verified by signature only, the name being false in any particular ; or if any person shall make or sign any declaration made for the consideration of the Collector or the proper officer of customs on any application presented to him the same being untrue in any particular ; or if any person required by this Ordinance or any other enactment relating to the customs to answer questions put to him by the officers of customs shall not truly answer such questions ; or if any person shall counterfeit, falsify, or wilfully use when counterfeited or falsified, any document required by this Ordinance or any enactment relating to the customs, or by or under the directions of the Collector or any instrument used in the transaction of any business or matter relating to the customs, or shall fraudulently alter any document or instrument, or counterfeit the stamp, seal, signature, initials, or other mark of, or used by the officers of the customs for the verification of any such document or instrument, or for the security of goods, or any other purpose, in the conduct of business relating to the customs, every person so contravening shall be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees, and any goods; including currency in any form, in relation to which the document or statement was made shall be liable to forfeiture : |
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