61. Supplying false information regarding trade unions.

Any person who, with intent to deceive, gives to any member of a registered trade union or to any person intending or applying to become a member of such trade union any document purporting to be a copy of the rules of the trade union or of any alterations thereto which he knows, or has reason to believe, is not a correct copy of such rules or alterations as are for the time being in force, or any person who, with the like intent, gives a copy of any rules of an unregistered trade union to any person on the pretence that such rules are the rules of a registered trade union, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred ringgit, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.