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wilfully makes or permits to be made for the purposes of registration any false statement;

wilfully or knowingly furnishes or permits to be furnished any false information, touching any of the particulars required by the Act to be made known;

makes or permits to be made any false entry in any register, knowing the same to be false;

wilfully destroys or permits to be destroyed any entry in any register;

wilfully issues any Certificate of Birth or Certificate of

Death containing false particulars;

without lawful authority makes any mark on or entry upon, or erases, cancels, tampers or alters any mark or entry contained in any register;

knowingly and wilfully registers or causes the registration of a birth or a death in respect of one person to be effected more than once;

makes use of a Certificate of Birth or a Certificate of Death knowing or believing that it contains any false particulars;

knowingly possesses or makes use of a Certificate of Birth or a Certificate of Death purporting the same to be his own or of any person other than the rightful owner’s;

forges a Certificate of Birth, Certificate of Death or

Certificate of Presumed Death;

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hands over any Certificate of Birth, Certificate of Death or

Certificate of Presumed Death to any person knowing or believing it will be used for unlawful purposes;

without lawful authority or reasonable excuse willfully retains any Certificate of Birth or Certificate of Death from the rightful owner;

aids or abets the commission of any offence against this

Act; or

knowingly possesses or makes use of a fake Certificate of

Birth, Certificate of Death or Certificate of Presumed

Death, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

Every offence under paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (h), (i), (j), (k),