Whosoever shall unlawfully, destroy, deface, or injure, or cause or permit to be destroyed, defaced, or injured, any register of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, or burials which now is or hereafter shall be by law authorized or required to be kept in England or Ireland, or any part of any such register, or any certified copy of any such register, or any part thereof, . . . F1 or shall knowingly and unlawfully insert or cause or permit to be inserted in any such register, or in any certified copy thereof, any false entry of any matter relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death, or burial, or shall knowingly and unlawfully give any false certificate relating to any birth, baptism, marriage, death, or burial or shall certify any writing to be a copy or extract from any such register, knowing such writing, or the part of such register whereof such copy or extract shall be so given, to be false in any material particular, . . . F1 or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any such register, entry, certified copy, certificate, . . . F1 knowing the same to be false, . . . F1 or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any copy of any entry in any such register, knowing such entry to be false, . . . F1 shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable . . . F2 to be kept in penal servitude for life . . . F2
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F1Words repealed by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I
F2Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19) and Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1References to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2
Whosoever shall knowingly and wilfully insert or cause or permit to be inserted in any copy of any register directed or required by law to be transmitted to any registrar or other officer any false entry of any matter relating to any baptism, marriage, or burial, . . . F3 or shall knowingly and wilfully sign or verify any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which copy shall be false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false, or shall unlawfully destroy, deface, or injure, or shall for any fraudulent purpose take from its place of deposit, or conceal, any such copy of any register, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . F4 to be kept in penal servitude for life . . . F4
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F3Words repealed by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I
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F5Ss. 4, 7–27, 29–33, 35, 38–40, 41 repealed by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I
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F6Ss. 42, 43 repealed by Indictments Act 1915 (c. 90), Sch. 2
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F7Act repealed (E.W.N.I.) so far as unrepealed, except sections 34,36, 37 and 55 by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45), Sch. Pt. I
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F8Ss. 45, 46 repealed by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I
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F9Ss. 47, 48 repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. I
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F10S. 49 repealed by Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58), Sch. 3 Pt. III
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F11 Act repealed (E.W.N.I.) so far as unrepealed except ss. 34, 36, 37 and 55 by Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (c. 45), Sch. Pt.I
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F12S. 51 repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1968 (c. 69), Sch. 5 Pt. II
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F14S. 53 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
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F15S. 54 repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1908 (c. 15), Sch.
Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Scotland, except as otherwise herein-before expressly provided.
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F16S. 56 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)