Section 39:
Signing in blank and failure to report.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the
following offences, namely:–
(a) when signing any document relating to pay, arms, ammunitions, equipment, clothing, supplies
or stores, or any property of the Government fraudulently leaves in blank any material part for which
his signature is a voucher; or
(b) refuses or by culpable neglect omits to make or send a report or return which it is his duty to
make or send,shall, on conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to
three years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.