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Part III E+W General

OffencesE+W

35 Offences relating to registers.E+W

If any person commits any of the following offences, that is to say—

(a)if, being a registrar, he refuses or without reasonable cause omits to register any birth or death or particulars concerning which information has been tendered to him by a qualified informant and which he is required by or under this Act to register; or

(b)if, being a person having the custody of any register of births or register of deaths, he carelessly loses or injures the register or allows the register to be injured,

he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 3 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

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 . . . F2 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 . . . F3, 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 [F4£2] for each offence.

Textual Amendments

F4Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

37 Penalty for forging certificate, etc. E+W

If any person . . . F5 falsifies any certificate, declaration or order under this Act, or knowingly uses, or gives or sends to any person, as genuine any false . . . F5 certificate, declaration or order for the purposes of this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F6level 1 on the standard scale].

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 37 extended with modifications by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. III

38 Prosecution of offences and application of fines.E+W

(1)Subject as may be prescribed, a superintendent registrar may prosecute any person for an offence under this Act committed within his district, and any costs incurred by him in any such prosecution, being costs which are not otherwise provided for, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

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