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9.—(1) Any person who—
(a)wilfully makes any false answer to any question put to him by any registrar of births or deaths relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning any birth or death, or, wilfully gives to any such registrar any false information concerning any birth or death or the cause of any death; or
(b)wilfully makes any false certificate or declaration under or for the purposes of any enactment relating to the registration of births or deaths, or knowing any such certificate or declaration to be false, uses it as true or gives or sends it to any person as true; or
(c)wilfully makes, gives or uses any false statement or declaration as to a child born alive having been still-born, or as to the body of a deceased person or a still-born child in any coffin, or falsely pretends that any child born alive was still-born; or
(d)makes any false statement with intent to have it inserted in any register of births or deaths,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable—
(a)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding[F1 level 3 on the standard scale];
(b)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, or to a fine.
(3) A prosecution on indictment for an offence against paragraph (1) shall not be commenced more than three years after the commission of the offence.
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