(xii) Miscellaneous offences
66. Unauthorised disclosure of information. Every person subject to this Ordinance who
without lawful authority wilfully discloses or purports to disclose whether orally, in writing, by signal
or by any other means whatso ever, any information which has been entrusted in confidence to him or
to which he has access owing to his position shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
67. Falsification of documents. Every person subject to this Ordinance who,__
(a) makes or signs any muster, record or other official document which is to his knowledge
false in a material particular ;
(b) alters any such document so that it is to his knowledge false in a material particular ; or
(c) connives at the commission by another person subject to this Ordi nance of an offence
against this section (whether or not he knows the nature of the document in relation to
which that offence is committed),
shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
68. Signing in blank and failure to report. Every person subject to this Ordinance who,__
(a) when signing any document relating to pay, arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing,
supplies or stores, or any property of the Government, fraudulently leaves in blank any
material part for which his signature is a voucher ; or
(b) refuses or by culpable neglect omits to make or send a report or return which it is his duty
to make or send,
shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
69. False answers on enrolment. Every person having become subject to this Ordinance by
enrolment who is discovered to have made at the time of his enrolment a wilfully false answer to any
question set forth in the prescribed form of enrolment, shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
70. Unbecoming conduct by officers. Every officer subject to this Ordinance who behaves in a
manner unbecoming his position and the character expected of him, shall be liable to be dismissed
from the service.
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