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Falsification of Documents.

7. Any person who—

(a) unlawfully destroys, defaces or injures or causes or permits to be destroyed, defaced or injured, any register of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials which is by law authorized or required to be kept in this Colony, or any part of such register, or any certified copy of any such register, or any part thereof; or

(b) knowingly and unlawfully inserts or causes or permits to be inserted in any such register, or in any certified copy thereof, any false entry of any matter relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death or burial; or

(c) knowingly and unlawfully gives any false certificate relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death or burial; or

(d) certifies any writing to be a copy of or extract from any such register, knowing such writing, or the part of such register whereof such copy or extract is so given, to be false in any material particular; or

(e) offers, utters, disposes of or puts off any such register, entry, certified copy or certificate, knowing the same to be false; or

(f) offers, utters, disposes of or puts off any copy of any entry in any such register, knowing such entry to be false,

shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for life.

8. Any person who—

(a) knowingly inserts, or causes or permits to be inserted in any copy of any register directed or required by law to be transmitted to any registrar or other officer any false entry of any matter relating to any baptism, marriage or burial; or

(b) signs or verifies any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which copy is false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false; or

(c) unlawfully destroys, defaces, injures, or for any fraudulent purpose takes from its place of deposit or conceals any such copy of any register,

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Destruction of register of births, etc. c. 98, s. 36.

24 & 25 Vict.

Making false entry in copy of register sent to registrar. c. 98, s. 37.

24 & 25 Vict.

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