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23. (1) Upon payment of the prescribed fees, the Regis-
trar General shall at all reasonable times allow searches to
be made in the Muslim Marriage or Muslim Divorce Register
Books and shall give certified copies therefrom.

(2) Any copy certified under the hand of the Registrar
General to be a correct copy of any entry in the Muslim
Marriage or Muslim Divorce Register Books shall be admis-
sible as evidence of the registration of the marriage or the
divorce to which it relates in all courts or before any person
now or hereafter having by law or consent of parties
authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.

24. All prescribed applications, certificates and entries in
register books shall be in the English language.

A Marriage Officer or a Divorce Officer, who is unable to
write, but able to read, the English language may cause the
particulars required in the certificates and entries in the
Register Books to be written in the English language in his
presence by another person, but such Officer must neverthe-
less sign the certificates and entries in the Register Books,

25. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully make
any false oath, affidavit or declaration, or sign any false
application, notice or certificate required by this Ordinance,
for the purpose of the registration of any marriage or divorce,
and every person who shall wilfully make, or cause to be
made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of
marriages or divorces, any false statement touching any of
the particulars required to be known and registered, shall on
being convicted thereof be subject to the same pains and
penalties as if he were guilty of perjury.

26. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully forge
or alter or falsely make, or procure to be forged or altered
or falsely made, or shall offer, utter or dispose of, knowing
the same to have been forged or altered or falsely made, any
Tegister book or any notice, licence, certificate, entry or
statement mentioned in this Ordinance, or any certified copy
thereof respectively, or shall wilfully insert or cause to be
inserted in any register book or certified copy thereof any

Searches in
Registers
and copies
of entries.

Use of
English
language.

False oath
or statement.

Forging or
altering
register
book, notice,
etc.