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(2) No proceedings may be commenced under this section in respect of any matter for which proceedings may be commenced under section 82.

(3) The Registrar shall give effect to an order made under subsection (1) in accordance with the provisions of the order.

98. Offences

(1) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of $5,000,000 and to imprisonment for 14 years if he fraudulently—

(a) issues or makes, or causes the issue or making of, any application for the registration of any matter;

(b) presents, or causes the presentation, to the Registrar of any application for the registration of any matter;

(c) makes, or causes the making of, any erasure or alteration to any application for the registration of any matter;

(d) verifies any application required by section 14(2) to be verified;

(e) makes, or causes the making of, any erasure or alteration to any microfilm, image record or other record of any application for the registration of any matter;

(f) procures the issue of a title certificate;

(g) makes, or causes the making of, any erasure or alteration to—

(i) the Title Register;

(ii) the applications register;

(iii) any document, or any microfilm, image record or other record of a document, kept in the Land Registry under section 6;

(iv) any endorsement on any thing referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); or

(v) any copy, print or extract of or from any thing referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) or of or from any endorsement on any such thing; or

(h) removes, or causes the removal, from the Land Registry of all or any part of—

(i) any thing referred to in paragraph (g)(i), (ii) or (iii);

(ii) any endorsement on any such thing;

(iii) any copy, print or extract of or from any such thing or of or from any endorsement on any such thing.

(2) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, does any act referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) of subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.