Penalty for defacing or destroying a register

A person who– (a) unlawfully destroys, defaces or injures or causes or permits to be destroyed, defaced or injured, any register or any part of any register or any certified copy of any entry in any register, or any part of any such copy; (b) forges or fraudulently alters any entry in any register, or any certified copy of any entry therein; (c) knowingly and unlawfully inserts, or causes or permits to be inserted in any register, or in any such certified copy, any false entry relating to any birth or death; or (d) certifies any writing to be a copy of an entry in or an extract from any register, knowing the same to be false in any material particular, commits an offence and is 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 Registration of Births and Deaths[CAP. 157 33 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.