36 Penalties for failure to given information, etc. E+W
If any person commits any of the following offences, that is to say—
(a)if, being required by or under this Act to give information concerning any birth or death F1. . . or any dead body, he wilfully refuses to answer any question put to him by the registrar relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth or death, or save as provided in this Act, fails to comply with any requirement of the registrar made thereunder;
(b)if he refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to give, deliver or send any certificate which he is required by this Act to give, deliver or send;
(c)if, being a parent and save as provided in this Act, he fails to give information concerning the birth of his child as required by this Act; or
(d)if, being a parent of a legitimated person F2. . . , he fails to comply with any requirement of the Registrar General made under or by virtue of section fourteen of this Act; or
(e)if, being a person upon whom a duty to give information concerning a death is imposed by paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section sixteen or seventeen of this Act, he fails to give that information and that information is not given,
he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F3£2] for each offence.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 4 Pt. VI
F2Words repealed by Legitimation (Re–registration of Birth) Act 1957 (c. 39), s. 1(2)
F3Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 36 amended by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I (as amended by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 )