Section 22. (1) Whoever

(2) Whoever— 142 Mines. [ACT VIII (Penalties.—Section 22.) (3) Whoever— (a) employs or allows to be employed in or about a mine, or allows to enter a mine or part of a mine, any person in contravention of any provision of this Act or of any rule or order thereunder; or (b) allows any person to perform any work forbidden; by, or to work in contravention of, any such provision; or (c) fails to comply with any requisition or order made under any such provision; or (d) being the owner, agent or manager of a mine, fails to maintain correctly, or to produce, any prescribed plan; or (e) contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule or order thereunder for the breach of which no penalty is otherwise provided; shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, and, in the case of a continuing breach under clause (c) of this sub-section, with a further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every day during which the breach is proved to have been persisted in after the date of the receipt by him of the order or requisition referred to in such clause. Miscellaneous. 1901.] Mines. 143 (Miscellaneous.—Sections 23-28.) Miscellaneous. 22. (1) Whoever— (a) obstructs the Chief Inspector or an Inspector of Mines in the discharge of his duties under this Act, or refuses or wilfully neglects to furnish him with the means necessary for making any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any mine; or (b) counterfeits, or knowingly makes a false statement in, any certificate or in any official copy of a certificate granted under this Act; or (c) knowingly uses as true any such counterfeit or false certificate; or (d) makes or produces or uses any false declaration, statement or evidence knowing the same to be false for the purpose of obtaining, for himself or for any other person, a certificate or the renewal of a certificate, or any employment under this Act; or (e) contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule or order thereunder for the breach of which no penalty is otherwise provided, where the act done has resulted in loss of life or serious bodily injury to any person; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. (2) Whoever— (a) falsifies any plan or register or record required to be maintained by or under this Act; or, (b) being the owner, agent or manager of a mine, omits to give the prescribed notice of an accident in the mine or to make or furnish any prescribed plans or returns; or (c) makes, gives or delivers any such plan, register, record, notice or return containing a statement, entry or detail which is not, to the best of his knowledge or belief, true; shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.