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Perjury.

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 seven years and to a fine, and

(ii) on summary conviction thereof, to a fine of 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.

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tory declara-

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

(a) in a statutory declaration; or

(b) in an abstract, account, balance sheet, book, certi- ficate, 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 (c) 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 two years and to a fine.

8. Any person who-

other false statements without oath. 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 5.

False declara- tions, etc.,

in terito

tration, etc.,

for carrying

(a) procures or attempts to procure himself to be registered on any register or roll kept under or in pursuance of any enactment for the time being in invocation. force of persons qualified by law to practise any vocation or calling; or

c. 6, s. 6.

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