Army Pensions Act, 1923

Summary penalty for false declaration.

12.—(1) If any person with a view to obtaining a grant or payment of a pension, allowance or gratuity under this Act makes signs or uses any declaration, application or other written statement knowing the same to be false, such person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(2) For the purpose of proceedings in respect of any such offence as is mentioned in this section, the offence shall be deemed to have been committed either at the place where it was actually committed or at the place where the offender may happen to be.

(3) Any declaration, application or other written statement on an appropriate official form bearing stamp purporting to be an office stamp of the Ministry of Defence or any sub-department thereof, or any Government Department concerned in the grant or payment of a pension, allowance or gratuity with a date subsequent to that on which the declaration, application or statement purports to have been made or signed shall, unless the contrary is proved, be evidence that the declaration, application or statement was made, signed or used with a view to obtaining a grant or payment of a pension, allowance or gratuity under this Act.