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(1)If any person receives any payment in respect of any savings bank annuity after the death of the person at whose death the annuity is to cease, or receives the amount of any insurance payable at the death of a person before the death of that person, he shall be liable to pay to the Commissioners double the amount of the sum received with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per annum from the date of the receipt, recoverable in a county court or any other competent court.
(2)If a person receiving any such sum as above-mentioned received the sum with intent to defraud he shall, in addition to the above-mentioned payment, be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
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