8. Every person who, on or after the relevant. date-
| (a) fails to comply with the provisions of section 6 ; or |
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| (b) fails to furnish the means required by the competent authority as necessary for any entry or inspection or the exercise of his powers under section 7; or |
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| (c) hinders or molests such authority in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 ; or |
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| (d) refuses to produce any register or record of wages, or give any information which such authority requires him to produce or give under the powers conferred by section 7 ; or |
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| (e) makes or causes to be made any register or record of wages which is false in any material particular, or produces or cause or knowingly allows to be produced any register or record to such authority acting under the powers conferred by section 7, knowing the same to be false ; or |
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| (f) makes default in complying with any direction given by such authority under section 7 or who, when called upon to furnish a return under the said section 7, knowingly. makes or furnishes or causes to be made or furnished, a false return or a return containing any false statement, |
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or both to such fine and imprisonment. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts