17. Every person who, on. or after the relevant date.
| (a) fails to comply with the provisions of section 15 ; 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 16 ; or |
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| (c) hinders or molests such authority in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 ; 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 16 ; 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 causes or knowingly allows to be produced any register or record to such authority acting under the powers conferred by section 16, knowing the same to be false ; or |
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| (f) furnishes any information to such authority acting under the powers conferred by section 16, knowing the same to be false ; or |
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| (g) makes default in complying with any directions given by such authority under section 16, or who, when called upon to furnish a return under the said section 16, 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 act exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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