7. PENALTY FOR FALSE STATEMENT. - Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining a payment or grant under a scheme either for himself or for any other person, knowingly makes any untrue statement or untrue representation, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months. FALSE EVIDENCE-DETERMINATION OF. -Where at the time when the judgment was delivered the Magistrate had no material before him to form an opinion that the petitioners had given false evidence, the section will not be applicable.
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