CAP. 200
Crimes
[1984 Ed.
(Cap. 178.)
False statements, etc., as to births or deaths. 1911 c. 6, s. 4.
False statutory declarations and other false statements without oath. 1911 c. 6, s. 5.
(c) forbids the issue of any certificate or licence for marriage by falsely representing himself to be a person whose consent to the marriage is required by law knowing such representation to be false; or
(d) knowingly and wilfully—
(i) makes a false statement in an application; or (ii) furnishes false information,
for the purpose of or in connexion with the registration of a customary marriage or a validated marriage under section 9 of the Marriage Reform Ordinance, (Added, 87 of 1970, s. 2)
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for 7 years and to a fine.
(21 of 1922, s. 5, incorporated. Amended, 5 of 1924, Schedule)
35. Any person who—
(a) wilfully makes any false answer to any question put to him by any registrar of births or deaths relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning any birth or death, or wilfully gives to any such registrar any false information concerning any birth or death or the cause of any death; or
(b) wilfully makes any false certificate or declaration under or for the purposes of any enactment relating to the registration of births or deaths, or knowing any such certificate or declaration to be false, uses the same as true or gives or sends the same as true to any person; or
(c) wilfully makes, gives or uses any false statement or declaration as to a child born alive as having been still-born, or as to the body of a deceased person or a still-born child in any coffin, or falsely pretends that any child born alive was still-born; or
(d) makes any false statement with intent to have the same inserted in any register of births or deaths,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(i) on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for 7 years and to a fine; and
(ii) on summary conviction to a fine of $250.
(21 of 1922, s. 6, incorporated. Amended, 5 of 1924, Schedule and 52 of 1972, s. 2)
36. Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes (otherwise than on oath) a statement false in a material particular, such statement being made—
(a) in a statutory declaration; or