Penalty for furnishing false information or disobeying summons, requisition or other order or direction

If any office-bearer,––

1. (a) knowingly or willingly makes a false return or furnishes false information; or
2. (b) wilfully or without any reasonable reason, disobeys any summons, requisition or other lawful order or direction issued under the provisions of this Regulation; or
3. (c) with holds or fails to furnish any information lawfully required from him by the District Registrar, Registrar or Registrar General or a person authorised in this behalf under the provisions of this Regulation, such office-bearer shall be liable for penalty of a sum which may extend to five thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing default or contravention, with a penalty which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day during which the default or contravention continues. ---