S41 Shops And Establishments Act

THE DELHI SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS ACT, 1954

Section 41: Wilfully making false entries.

If any person with intent to deceive makes or causes or allows to be made in any record, register, or notice prescribed under section 33 an entry which is to his knowledge false in any material particular, or causes or allows to be omitted from any such record, register or notice an entry required to be made therein, he shall be liable on conviction to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees and which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or to both.

COMMENTS

Penalty under this section can be imposed by a court not below the rank of a Magistrate of the First Class or a Metropolitan Magistrate in a residency town. The penalties which may be imposed are of two types, namely: (i) imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or (ii) fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees but which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or both.