Publication of certificate and declaration

(1) Every certificate and declaration mentioned in section 155 shall in each case be forthwith transmitted by the Superintendent of Prisons to the Governor-General, and copies certified by the Superintendent of Prisons of those several documents shall as soon as possible be exhibited and for twenty-four hours at least be kept exhibited on or near the principal entrance of the prison within which judgment of death has been executed. (2) Any person who knowingly and wilfully signs any false certificate or declaration required by this Part relating to capital punishment shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to imprisonment, for any term not exceeding two years.