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(iii) any person knowingly gives to any agent, or if any agent knowingly uses with intent to deceive his principal, any receipt, account or other document in respect of which the principal is interested, and which contains any statement which is false or erroneous or defective in any material particular, and which to his knowledge is intended to mislead the principal;

he shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty for offences. 5.—(1) Any person who commits an offence against section 3 of this Ordinance shall—

(a) be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and to fine not exceeding five thousand dollars;

(b) be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars;

(c) in addition be liable to be ordered to pay to such body, and in such manner as the magistrate or the court directs, the amount or value of any gift, loan, fee, or reward received by him or any part thereof;

(d) be liable to be adjudged incapable of being elected or appointed to any public office for seven years from the date of his conviction, and to forfeit any such office held by him at the time of his conviction;

(e) in the event of a second conviction for a like offence he shall, in addition to the foregoing penalties, be liable to be adjudged to be forever incapable of holding any public office, and to be incapable for seven years of being registered as an elector of members of any public body, and any enactment from time to time in force in the Colony for preventing the voting and registration of persons declared by reason of corrupt practices to be incapable of voting shall apply to a person adjudged in pursuance of this section to be incapable of voting; and

(f) if such person is an officer or servant in the employ of any public body upon such conviction he shall, at the discretion of the magistrate or the court, be liable to forfeit his right and claim to any compensation or pension to which he would otherwise have been entitled.

(2) Any person committing an offence against section 4 of this Ordinance shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars;

(b) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment not exceeding five years and to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars;