§ (2) Sub-section (1) of Section twenty-two of the principal Act, which provides that a person who for the purpose of obtaining benefit or for certain other purposes knowingly makes any false statement or false representation shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, shall have effect as though six months were therein substituted for three months.
§ Lords Amendment:
§ Leave out Sub-section (2).
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI beg to move "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
I agree with this Amendment. The effect is to make the maximum penalty for false representation three months instead of six. The difficulty is that delays and law charges might have been caused whereas, if we have a maximum of three months, there could be a summary hearing, which is much more satisfactory.