Clause 23

being a person required to be registered under this Act carries on business without having obtained a certificate of registration or continues to carry on business after the expiry or cancellation of a certificate of registration;

fails to submit any change of particulars which is required to be submitted to the Registrar under section 12;

without lawful excuse fails to comply with any summons or requisition of the Registrar under section 20;

makes any statement or furnishes any information to the Registrar under the provisions of this Act or of any of the regulations made thereunder, whether such statement is oral or in writing, which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular and which he either knows or has reason to believe is false;

being a person registered under this Act carries on business without exhibiting a valid certificate of registration or a certified copy thereof in a conspicuous place at the principal place of business of that person referred to in the certificate and at every place where that person carries on business; or

fails to comply with any of the regulations made under this Act,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.