43:10-18.72 - False statements or records; mistakes - New Jersey Statutes

43:10-18.72.  False statements or records;  mistakes
    Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or  permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any  attempt to defraud such system as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a  misdemeanor, and shall be punishable therefor under the laws of the State of  New Jersey.  Should any change in the records or any mistake in records result  in any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less  than he or she would have been entitled to receive had the records been  correct, then, on the discovery of any such error, the pension commission shall  correct such error, and, so far as practicable, shall adjust the payments which  may be made for and to such person in such a manner that the equivalent of the  benefit to which he or she was correctly entitled shall be paid.

     L.1948, c. 310, p. 1254, s. 23.