Section 16: Offences

16. Offences Any person who— (a) fails to attend the Division after having been required to do so; (b) knowingly gives false evidence, or evidence which he knows to be misleading, before the Division; (c) conceals, destroys, alters, tampers with, or otherwise disposes of, any article, or book, record, accounts, report or data, stored electronically or otherwise, or other document, which he has been summoned or required to produce; (d) procures the false testimony of a witness, or interferes with a witness on account of his testimony, before the Division; P13A – 7 [Issue 5] (e) knowingly makes or causes to be made a false complaint before the Division; (f) at any sitting of the Division— (i) insults a member; or (ii) interrupts the proceedings; (g) obstructs or assaults a member or an officer of the Division in the exercise of his functions and powers; or (h) impersonates a member or an officer of the Division, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.