Local Officers' Compensation (War Period) Act, 1924

Declaration to be made before receipt of allowance or gratuity.

3.—(1) No person shall receive any gratuity or any instalment of an allowance payable to him under this Act until he has subscribed such declaration as may be prescribed by a warrant of the Minister for Finance before one of the persons prescribed by such warrant: Provided that where any such allowance is paid monthly the Minister for Finance may dispense with the production of more than one declaration in respect of each quarter.

(2) Any person who makes a declaration for the purpose of this section knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.