Section 39

Any person who enters a caveat against the issue of a certificate for marriage and pretends or falsely represents himself to be a person whose consent to the marriage is required by law knowing or believing such pretence or representation to be false or not believing it to be true shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to

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imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit or to both.

Unauthorized solemnization of marriages