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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 143

Penalty on officers for fraud.

143. Every officer or person employed at the Proof House or any Branch Proof
House of either of the Two Companies fraudulently marking, or causing or
procuring or permitting or suffering to be marked, any barrel as duly proved
which has not been duly proved, or fraudulently marking or causing or
procuring or permitting or suffering any barrel to be marked as duly proved
with a mark indicating any other proof than the proof then duly made thereof,
shall [be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory
maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine] and being legally convicted
of any such offence shall thenceforth be incapable of holding any office or
employment in or under either of the Two Companies, or in any public Proof
House established by law, and if in office or employment in any such Proof
House at the time of such conviction shall be forthwith dismissed from his
office or employment therein.

S.144 rep. by 1978 c.9 s.8(2) sch.4


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