Offences

(1) Any person who– (a) knowingly misleads or deceives any person authorised by or under this Act to require information in respect of any land or interest (b) fraudulently issues or makes, or fraudulently procures the issue or making of, any certificate or other document, or any registration, or any 93 erasure or alteration in any certificate or other document or in any register; (c) fraudulently uses, assists in fraudulently using or is privy to the fraudulent use of any instrument or form purporting to be issued or authorised by the Registrar; or (d) causes any defacement, obliteration, mutilation or unauthorised entry or alteration to be made on or in any register or filed instrument, or other document, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment. (2) If any person, 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 Act, he commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. (3) Where a specific penalty has not been prescribed for any offence under this Act, any person who commits any such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment.