Penalties for giving false information or making false certificates

A person who wilfully and knowingly– (a) gives to the Registrar any false information concerning any birth, or death, or any living new-born child or dead body, or makes any false answer to any question put to him by the Registrar relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning any birth or death; 32 (b) makes any false order or certificate under, or for any of the purposes of, this Act, or forges or falsifies any such order or certificate, or, knowing any such order or certificate to be forged or false, uses the same as true, or gives or sends the same as true to any person; or (c) makes any false statement with intent to have the same entered in any register, shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and on conviction upon indictment to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.