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of the birth of any child, the entry or certified copy of the
entry of the birth of such child in a register or in a certified
copy of such a register, shall not be evidence of such birth,
unless such entry purports --

(a) if it appear that not more than twelve months
have so intervened, to be signed by the Superintendent
Registrar as well as by the Registrar; or

(b) if more than twelve months have so intervened,
to have been made with the authority of the Registrar
General, and in accordance with the prescribed rules.

(3) Where more than twelve months have intervened
between the day of a death or the finding of a dead body and
the day of the registration of the death or the finding of such
body, the entry or certified copy of the entry of the death in
a register or in a certified copy of such register, shall not be
evidence of such death, unless such entry purports to have
been made with the authority of the Registrar General, and
in accordance with the prescribed rules.

37. Every person required to give information concerning
any birth or death, or any living new-born child, or any dead
body, who wilfully refuses to answer any question put to htm
by the Registrar relating to the particulars required to be
registered concerning such birth or death, or fails to comply
with any requisition of the Registrar made in pursuance of
this Ordinance, and every person who refuses or fails with-
out reasonable excuse to give or send any certificate in
accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be
liable to a fine of ten dollars for each offence; and the
parent of any child who fails to give information concerning
the birth of such child, as required by this Ordinance, shall
be liable to a like fine; and a person required by this
Ordinance to give information concerning a death in the
first instance, and not merely in default of some other
person, shall, if such information as is required by this
Ordinance is not duly given, be liable to the same fine.

38. Any person who forges or falsifies any certificate or
declaration or order under this Ordinance, or, knowing any
such certificate, declaration, or order to be false or forged,
uses the same as true, or gives or sends the same as true to

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Penalty for
not giving
information.

Offences.