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(2) knowingly and wilfully makes, or knowingly and wilfully causes to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of marriage, a false statement as to any particular required by law to be known and registered relating to any marriage; or
(3) 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,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine.
6.--(1) Every 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 a misdemeanor and shall be liable-
(i) on conviction thereof on indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine, and
(ii) on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
False statements, etc., as to births or deaths.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 4.
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(2) knowingly and wilfully makes, or knowingly and wil- fully causes to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of inarriage, a false statement as to any particular required by law to be known and registered relating to any marriage; or
(3) 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,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine.
6.--(1) Every 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 certif- icate 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 a misdemeanor and shall be liable-
(i) on conviction thereof on indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine, and
(ii) on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceed- ing two hundred and fifty dollars.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
False state-
ments, etc.,
as to births deaths.
or
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 4.
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