Section 40 Penalties for falsification.
England, Wales and Scotland
If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made any entry or erasure in, or omission from a collecting book or premium receipt book, with intent to falsify that book, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment. . . F1 for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding F2level 3 on the standard scale or to both such imprisonment and fine.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words repealed by Companies Act 1967 (c. 81), Sch. 7
- F2
Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (1.12.2001) by 2000 c. 8, ss. 416(1)(a), 432(3), Sch. 22; S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1) (with savings in S.I. 2001/3647, arts. 3(1)(3), 6, Sch. 1 Pts. I, III as amended (3.7.2002) by S.I. 2002/1555, art. 2)