(1)If any person willfully makes any false statement or declaration in any application to bring land under the operation of this Act or in any application under Part V of this Act or in any other application to be registered under this Act as proprietor of any land, lease or mortgage, or suppresses or conceals or assists or joins in or is privy to the suppressing, withholding or concealing from the Registrar of any material document, fact or matter of information, or willfully makes any false affidavit or signs any false certificate required under the authority or made or signed in pursuance of this Act, or if any person in the course of his or her examination before the Registrar willfully and corruptly gives false evidence, or if any person fraudulently procures, assists in fraudulently procuring or is privy to the fraudulent procurement of any certificate of title or instrument or of any entry in the Register Book or of any erasure or alteration in any entry in the Register Book, or knowingly misleads or deceives any person hereinbefore authorised to require explanation or information in respect to any land or the title to any land under the operation of this Act in respect to which any dealing is proposed to be registered, that person commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine or both; and any certificate of title, entry, erasure or alteration so procured or made by fraud shall be void as against all parties or privies to the fraud.

(2)Nothing in this section shall affect any remedy to which any person aggrieved or injured by any act is entitled against the person who has committed the act or against his or her estate.