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Destroying
or injuring
register
book, etc.

Limitation.

Dispo.
fees,

Regulations.

Schedule.

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false entry of marriage or divorce, or shall wilfully give any
false certificate, or shall certify any writing to be a copy or
extract of any register book, knowing the same to be false
in any part thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit the seal of
the Registrar General, shall be guilty of felony and liable to
imprisonment for seven years.

27. Every person who shall unlawfully and maliciously
destroy or injure, or cause to be destroyed or injured, any
register book or any notice, licence, certificate, entry or
statement mentioned in this Ordinance, or any certified copy
thereof respectively, shall be guilty of felony, and liable to
imprisonment for three years.

28. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be com-
menced after the expiration of three years from the com-
mission of the offence nor without the written consent of the
Atorney General.

29. All fees received by the Registrar General or District
Registrars under this Ordinance shall be paid into the
Treasury for the use of the Colony.

30. The Governor in Council may make such regulations
as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the
provisions of this Ordinance and more especially may
prescribe—

(a) the place or places at which shall be situate the
offices of the several District Registrars ;

(b) the form of any certificate, register or other
document required for the purpose of this Ordinance;

(c) the conditions under which registers or other
documents may be inspected ;

(d) the fees to be paid in respect of anything required
or permitted to be done under the provisions of this
Ordinance, and provision for their remission on account
of the poverty of the parties or for other good reason:

Provided that, until varied or revoked by any such