2.—(1) If any unauthorised person uses or wears —| (a) | any insignia of any order instituted by the President; | | (b) | any decoration or medal, or the ribbon of any decoration or medal, so instituted; | | (c) | any naval, military or air force decoration, medal, bar, clasp or ribbon; | | (d) | any badge, stripe or emblem supplied or authorised by the Armed Forces Council or by the President; | | (e) | any uniform or part of a uniform of the naval, military, air or police forces; or | | (f) | anything so nearly resembling any insignia, decoration, medal, bar, clasp, ribbon, badge, stripe, emblem or uniform or part of a uniform as abovementioned that it is calculated to deceive, |
| and if any unauthorised person assumes or uses any title of rank in the military, naval or air forces, or any letters after his name indicating the possession of any order, decoration or medal, that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate’s Court to a fine not exceeding $400 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months. |
(2) If any person —| (a) | falsely represents himself to be a person who is or has been entitled to use or wear any such insignia, decoration, medal, bar, clasp, ribbon, badge, stripe, emblem or uniform or part of a uniform; or | | (b) | without lawful authority or excuse supplies or offers to supply any insignia, decoration, medal, bar, clasp, ribbon, badge, stripe, emblem or uniform or part of a uniform to any person whom he knows or has good reason to believe not to be authorised to use or wear it, |
| that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate’s Court to the like penalties as if he had been convicted of an offence under subsection (1). |
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