Penalty for false statement in returns

Any person who makes any false statement in an application for a licence or in a prescribed return tendered in support of his application for renewal, with the intention of fraudulently obtaining a licence or of avoiding payment of all or any part of any licence fee commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment.