Section 9

The Board may require any person to submit such information as may, in its opinion, be necessary before any distribution is made from the Fund under this Act; and any person making application for assistance from the Fund who wilfully or without reasonable excuse fails to give such information to the Board or who gives any information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false in any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to both.