47. Every person who(a) contravenes any provision of this act or of the regulations,
(b) obtains or receives, in bad faith or fraudulently, income security benefits he is not entitled to, or
(c) knowingly helps or encourages another person to obtain or receive income security benefits he is not entitled to,is liable to a maximum fine of not more than $200.
Every person convicted of an offence contemplated in subparagraph b or c may, in addition, be condemned to a fine not exceeding the amount obtained fraudulently or without right.
1979, c. 16, s. 47; 1990, c. 4, s. 817.