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No. 21 of 1922.

False statu-

PERJURY.

(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.

(2) A prosecution on indictment for an offence against this section shall not be commenced more than three years after the commission of the offence.

7. Every person who knowingly and wilfully makes a false statement (otherwise than on oath) false in a material particular, such statement being made-

tory declarations and other false statements without oath.

1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 5.

(1) in a statutory declaration; or

(2) in an abstract, account, balance sheet, book, certificate, declaration, entry, estimate, inventory, notice, report, return or other document which he is authorized or required to make, attest or verify, by any enactment for the time being in force; or

(3) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required to make by, under or in pursuance of any enactment for the time being in force,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and to a fine.