(b) in making a complaint under section 26 or section 27 makes any statement affecting the
character of any person subject to this Act, knowing or having reason to believe such
statement to be false, or knowingly and wilfully suppresses any material facts ;
shall on conviction by court‑martial, be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
57. Falsifying official document and false declaration. Any person subject to this Act, who
commits any of the following offences, that is to say :___
(a) in any report, return, list, certificate, book or other document made or signed by him, or of
the contents of which it is his duty to ascertain the accuracy, knowingly makes, or is privy
to the making of, any false or fraudulent statement ; or
(b) in any document of the description mentioned in clause (a) knowingly makes, or is privy
to the making of, any omission, with intent to defraud ; or
(c) knowingly and with intent to injure any person or knowingly and with intent to defraud,
suppresses, defaces, alters or makes away with any document which it is his duty to
preserve or produce ; or
(d) where it is his official duty to make a declaration respecting any matter, knowingly makes
a false declaration ; or
(e) obtains for himself, or for any other persons, any pension, allowance or other advantage or
privilege by a statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false
or does not believe to be true, or by making or using a false entry
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