Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsOffences
| 5. Any person who knowingly makes a declaration which is false with regard to any particular, required to be stated in an application made under section 4, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall on conviction by a Magistrate after summary trial be liable to imprisonment not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding rupees five thousand or to both such fine and imprisonment, and the Magistrate shall, if he is satisfied that the Certificate issued on the faith of such declaration would not have been issued but for such false statement in such declaration, make order cancelling such Certificate- |