852 No. 40 of 2016] Holding out as patent agent Offences by body corporate or unicorporated body General offences Patents 121. A person who describes or holds out, or permits another to describe or hold out as a patent agent when not duly registered, in accordance with this Act, commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both. 122. Where an offence in accordance with this Act is committed by a body corporate or unincorporated body, every director or manager of the body corporate or unincorporated body is liable, upon conviction, as if the director or manager had personally committed the offence, unless the director or manager proves to the satisfaction of the court that the act constituting the offence was done without the knowledge, consent or connivance of the director or manager or that the director or manager took reasonable steps to prevent the commission of the offence. 123. A person who— (a) provides false information in an application for the grant of a patent or utility model certificate; (b) makes or causes to be made a false entry in the Register, or any document purporting it to be a copy of an entry in the Register or produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such document, knowing the entry or document to be false; (c) alters or defaces or partly removes, erases or obliterates any document issued by the Registrar; (d) makes or submits a false statement or representation, whether orally or in writing, to the Registrar or Agency knowing the same to be false; (e) knowingly uses, in any way, words, whether orally or in writing, or acts in a manner which lead other persons to believe that the person is an employee or agent of the Agency; (f) having innocently made a false statement or representation, whether orally or in writing, for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of anything in relation to this Act and who on becoming aware that such statement or representation was false, fails to advise the Registrar of such falsity; (g) after having been sworn, willfully gives false evidence before the Registrar knowing such evidence to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true;