Clause 34

Any person who obtains payment of any grant or loan or any other form of financial assistance from the Authority by means of any false or misleading statement or any document that is false or misleading in any particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $25,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

Where an offence under subsection (1) committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent and connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the court may, in addition to imposing a penalty under this section, order the person to make repayment of the amount of any money wrongfully obtained.

Where an order has been made under subsection (3), a certified copy of the order may be filed in a court having civil jurisdiction to the extent of the amount ordered to be repaid and the order is thereupon enforceable in all respects as the final judgment of that court.