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Destroving
or injuring
register
book,

Otfences by
unlicensed
Marriage
Officer

Prosecution
of offences,

Disposal of
Tees,

Regulations.

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shall wilfully insert in any such register book or certified
copy thereof any false entry of marmage, or shall certify
any writing to be a copy, a translation or an extract of any
certificate or register book, mentioned in this Ordinance,
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 lable on indictment to imprison-
ment for seven vears.

22. Any person who shall unlawfully and maliciously
destroy or injure, or cause to be destroyed or injured, any
register book or any licence, certificate, declaration, entry
or statement mentioned in this Ordinance, or any certified
copy or translation thereof respectively, shall be guilty of
felony, and liable on indictment to imprisonment for five
years.

23. Anv person who without being duly licensed as a
Marriage Officer—

(a) knowingly or wilfully solemnizes any marriage
purporting to be a marriage under the provisions of
this Ordinance; or

(b) knowingly and wilfully makes or signs any certifi-
cate or signs any declaration required by this Ordinance
to be made or signed by a Marriage Officer,

shall be guilty of felony and liable on indictment to
imprisonment for three years.

24. No prosecution for any felony under this Ordinance
shall be commenced after the >-xpiration of three years
from the commission of the offence nor without the written
consent of the Attorney General.

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

26. The Governor in Council may make such regulations
as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the