Clause 50
Offences relating to certificates or extracts
of Registration of Births and Deaths Bill
BillNot in forceProvision 50 of 69
Clause 50
A person who —
(a)
forges a document, purporting to be a birth certificate, death certificate or stillbirth certificate, or an extract from any record in a register;
(b)
alters, or otherwise tampers with, a birth certificate, death certificate or stillbirth certificate, or an extract from any record in a register; or
(c)
knowingly obtains, possesses or uses a forged, altered or tampered certificate or extract mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b),shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.