Government Annuities Act 1929

32 Punishment for false statements

(1) If any certificate or affidavit is produced to an officer of the Commissioners which contains any untrue statement of the age of any person proposed or appointed to be a nominee with intent to obtain an annuity on the continuance of the life of any person under the age of fifteen years, or to obtain a higher rate or amount of annuity than would be allowed under the provisions of this Part of this Act according to the true age of that nominee, all stock or annuities which may have been transferred, and all money which may have been paid, as consideration for the annuity, shall be forfeited, and all right and title to any annuity in respect thereof shall determine, and the person by whom or on whose behalf the stock or annuities have been transferred or money paid shall forfeit treble the amount of every sum which may have been received by him or on his behalf in respect of the annuity and also a further sum of five hundred pounds.

(2) If any certificate of the existence or death or burial of any nominee given under this Part of this Act by a person prescribed in that behalf by a warrant of the Treasury is false, the person giving it shall, if he acted wilfully, be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, if he acted negligently, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3) If any declaration made for the purposes of this Part of this Act is untrue in any particular, the person making the declaration shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be subject, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

(4) If, in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, any person in any declaration or affidavit for the purposes of this Part of this Act before any justice of the peace, magistrate, or officer of the Commissioners, wilfully makes any false statement, he shall be liable on conviction to be punished as if he were guilty of perjury.