Malaysia legislation

Section 27

of Registration of Births and Deaths Ordinance, 1958

Section 27

(a)

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

(b)

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

(c)

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

(d)

wilfully destroys or permits to be destroyed any entry in any register, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for one year and a fine of two thousand ringgit.

[Am. Ord. No. 16/57.]

(2)

Any person who—

(a)

wilfully or carelessly injures, mutilates, defaces or loses any register, form or document used for the purpose of this

Ordinance;

(b)

any Senior Registrar, Registrar or Deputy Registrar, who refuses or omits without reasonable cause, the proof of which shall rest with the person accused, to register or record any birth, still-birth or death, within his area, of which he has notice or knowledge;

(c)

any Senior Registrar or Registrar who carelessly or wilfully allows any register, form or document to be destroyed, injured, mutilated, defaced or lost while in his custody or keeping; or

(d)

any person who wilfully neglects or omits to comply with section 20 or 21, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for six months and a fine of one thousand ringgit.

Prosecutions

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