Penalty for making false statements, etc.

Whoever for the purpose of avoiding any payment to be made by him under this Act or under the Scheme or for enabling any other person to avoid such payment, knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement or false representation, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to Rs. 1,000, or with both. Any person who commits a breach of any term of any settlement or award shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both, and, where the breach is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day during which the breach continues after conviction for the first such breach, and the court trying the offence may direct that the whole or any part of the fine realised from him shall be paid by way of compensation to any person who in its opinion has been injured by such breach. (1) On receipt of the intimation that the application for membership in the Fund has been accepted, the agricultural worker shall remit Rs. 2 (Rupees two only) per month as his contribution to the Fund in a District Co-operative Hank or in any of its branches in the District in which the agricultural worker resides or in an authorised office of the Board in the respective jurisdiction. Before moneS' is accepted, the bank shall ensure that proper orders of the Chief Executive or an officer authorised by him in this behalf is produced stating that the agricultural worker has been admitted as a member of the Fund. (2) The date on which the member makes his first monthly contribution shall be the date on which he shall be deemed to have been admitted as a member of the Fund. The bank receiving the money shall issue a credit card in the form as may be prescribed by the Board showing the details of remittance. Future remittances of the member shall also be entered in this card duly attested by the Bank authorities. (3) If any member defaults in the payment of the monthly contribution. the same may be paid in the subsequent month. If a member does not pay he contribution consecutively for six months, he shall cease to be a member of ie Fund: Provided the Chief'Executive may consider the case of request for revival in respect of a defaulter be'ond six months and pass appropriate orders on receipt of ±1 defaulted amount with a fine as may be determined by the Board. (4) A member shall cease to be a member of the Fund on attaining the age df sixty years. (5) Every landowner as mentioned in sub-section (I) of section 9 of the Act shall remit the contribution in the Village Office concerned and the Village Officer shall receive the amount and issue receipts in the form as may be pre4ribed by the Board for the purpose. The Chief Executive or the Officers autljorised by the Chief Executive in this behalf shall collect, after giving proper acknowledgement on the 5th working day of the succeeding month, such amount ftoh the Village Officer and he shall credit the same to the Fund.