Section 31
Any person who ―
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Section 31
(a)
without lawful authority alters or changes or removes any entry or particular or matter in the Registry of Muslim Adoption kept under subsection 24(1),
(b)
alters, changes or removes any particular in a certificate of adoption or destroys or defaces such particular; or
(c)
without reasonable cause, retains or has in his possession, a certificate which is not issued to him by the Registrar under subsection 24(4);
commits an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months or to both.