Section 90: Prohibition of making or issuing false certificate

1) No person with authority or duty under law to submit, certify, authenticate or issue a certificate or submit an affidavit or false certificate in relation to any matter shall submit, certify, authenticate or issue such certificate or submit such affidavit, knowingly setting down a false statement in such certificate or affidavit.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees.