Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979

9 Fraudulent statements etc.U.K.

(1)Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining any payment under this Act, whether for himself or some other person,—

(a)knowingly makes any false statement or representation, or

(b)produces or furnishes or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 5 on the standard scale].

(2)In the application of subsection (1) above to the Isle of Man, for the words following “liable” there shall be substituted the words “on summary conviction, within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1976 (an Act of Tynwald), to a fine of £400 and on conviction on information to a fine”.

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