Clause 24

Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes or causes to be made or subscribed any declaration by this Act required or permitted to be made or subscribed, in which there is any false statement or misrepresentation or from which there is any omission of any of the particulars by this Act required to be contained therein, whereby the declaration is misleading, and any owner of a newspaper who knowingly and wilfully permits any declaration under subsection (1) of section 16 of this Act to be made or subscribed which is misleading with reference to his name, occupation, place of business or place of residence, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction before a District Court to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or both such imprisonment and fine.