Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Misstatement in application for reception order, etc.

255.—Where any person—

(a) makes a wilful misstatement in an application for a recommendation for reception, in an application for a reception order, or in a reception order, or

(b) makes a wilful misstatement in a medical or other certificate or in a statement or report under this Act of bodily or mental condition, or

(c) wilfully makes in a book, statement, or return a false entry as to a matter as to which he is required to make an entry by this Act or a regulation thereunder,

such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.