Section 56:
Penalties.
(1) Whoever in any return, balance-sheet, or other document or in any information
required or furnished by or under or for the purposes of any provision of this Act, wilfully makes a
statement which is false in any material particular, knowing it to be false, or wilfully omits to make a
material statement, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and
shall also be liable to fine.
(2) If any person fails to produce any book, account or other document, or to furnish any statement or
information which, under the provisions of this Act, it is his duty to produce or furnish, he shall be
punishable with a fine which may extend to two thousand rupees in respect of each offence and in the case of a continuing failure, with an additional fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every
day during which the failure continues after conviction for the first such failure.