s 24 Penalties for maiming, etc.
(1) Any person who— (a) maims or injures any person registered under this Act; or (b) administers any drug or other substance to any person with intent in either case to produce in that person any disability or apparent disability and thereby to affect his suitability or apparent suitability to be called up for national service either generally or in any particular capacity, shall be guilty of an offence against this section. (2) Any person who knowingly makes any false statement as to the present or past state of health of any person registered under this Act with intent that such person shall be treated as unsuitable or less suitable for national service, either generally or in any particular capacity, shall be guilty of an offence against this section. (3) Any person registered under this Act who maims or injures himself, or administers to himself any drug or other substance, with intent in either case to produce in himself any disability or apparent disability and thereby to affect his suitability or apparent suitability for national service, either generally or in any particular capacity, shall be guilty of an offence against this section. (4) Any person who, at a medical examination under this Act, personates any other person with intent that that other person shall be treated as unsuitable or less suitable for national service, either generally or in any particular capacity, shall be guilty of an offence against this section. (5) Any person guilty of an offence against this section shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.