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Section 10: Penalties for offences

The Maharashtra Workmen’s Minimum House-rent Allowance Act, 1983.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 23 of 1988

(1) Whoever, for the purposes of avoiding any payment to be made by himself under this Act, or of enabling any other person to avoid such payment, knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement or false representation or false entry in any register, account book or other record shall, on conviction, be punished [with fine which may extend to ten lakhs rupees].

(2) Any person who contravenes, or makes default in compliance with, any other provision of this Act shall, on conviction, be punished [with fine which may extend to ten lakhs rupees].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Workmen’s Minimum House-rent Allowance Act, 1983.
Section10
Marginal notePenalties for offences
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Mah. 20 of 2023. These words were substituted for the words "with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees" by Mah. 20 of 2023, s. 12(1).
  • substituted, Mah. 20 of 2023. These words substituted for the words "with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine extend to one thousand rupees, or with both" by Mah. 20 of 2023, s. 12(2).

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