57. Falsifying official documents and false declaration. -Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,
(a) In any report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by him or of the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes or is privy to the making of any false or fraudulent statement: or
(b) In any document of the description mentioned in Cl. (a) knowingly makes, or is privy to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud; or
(c) Knowingly and with intent to injure any person or knowingly and with intend to defraud, suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his duty to preserve or produce; or
(d) Where it is his Official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter, knowingly makes a false declaration', or
(e) Obtains for himself, or any other person, any pension, allowance or other advantage or privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a false entry in any book or record rd or by making any document containing a false statement or by omitting to make a true entry or document containing a true statement:
Shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term, which may extend to fourteen years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.
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