Section 30Part 6 — General and Supplementary
Offences and time limit for prosecutions
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Whoever —
for the purpose of obtaining a loan or other payment from the Bank for himself or for another, knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material respect;
applies any loan or other payment made to him by the Bank for a purpose other than that for which the loan or payment was made; or
knowingly or recklessly jeopardises the security given in relation to a loan or payment made to him by the Bank,
is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.
Notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, proceedings for an offence under this Law may, subject to subsection (3), be commenced within the period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge.
No such proceedings shall be commenced by virtue of this section more than three years after the commission of the offence.
For the purposes of this section, a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in his opinion to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.
A certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.