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17. The Legitimation Ordinance, save and except sections pplication
3 and 10 thereof, shall apply, mutatis mutandis to persons 0 Lesitima-
legitimated by reason of registration of marriage under the Ordinance.
provisions of this Ordinance.

18. The Registrar may correct any clerical error in any Correction of
certificate or declaration of Hindu marriage filed in his (°c
office ani] in the Hindu Marriage Register Books and shall
authenticate every such correction by his signature and the
date of such correction.

19. (1) Upon payment of the prescribed fees, the searches in
Registrar shall at all reasonable times allow searches to be ne

made in the Hindu Marriage Register Books and shall entries.
give certified copies therefrom.

(2) Any copy certified under the hand of the
Registrar to be a correct copy of any entry in the Hindu
Marriage Register Books shall be admissible as evidence
of the registration of the marriage 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
‘xamune evidence.

20. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully make False
any false declaration, or sign or mark any false application, declaration,
notice or certificate, required by this Ordinance for the ~~
purpose of the registration of any marriage, and every
person who shall wilfully make, or cause to be made,
for the purpose of being inserted in any register of marriages
any false statement touching any of the particulars required
by this Ordinance 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.

21. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully forge Forging or
or alter or falsely make, or shall offer, utter or dispose of, altering
knowing the same to have been forged or altered or falsely ronal bools
made, any register book or any licence, certificate, declara-
tion, entry or other statement mentioned in this Ordinance,
or any certified copy or translation thereof respectively, or