Section 35

being required by or under this Act to give information concerning any birth or death or any living new-born child or any dead body, wilfully refuses to answer any question put to him by the Registrar relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth or death, or save as provided in this Act, fails to comply with any requirement of the Registrar made thereunder;

refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to give, deliver or send any certificate which he is required by this Act to give, deliver or send;

being a person upon whom a duty is imposed by section 8

to give information concerning a birth fails to give that information and that information is not given;

being a parent of a legitimated person within the meaning of the Legitimacy Act 1961, fails to comply with any requirement of the Registrar-General made under or by virtue of section 17 of this Act;

being a person upon whom a duty to give information concerning a death is imposed by section 19 of this Act, fails to give that information and that information is not given; or

being a person who is called upon by the Registrar-General or the Superintendent-Registrar to appear before him in pursuance to subsection 37B(2) fails without reasonable excuse to do so, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

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Penalty for false information, false entry, or destruction of entry