Section 27
Penalty for willfully giving false information
The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
About this Act
An Act to provide for the voluntary Registration of certain Births and Deaths, for the establishment of General Registry Offices for keeping Registers of certain Births, Deaths and Marriages, and for certain other purposes.
If any person willfully makes, or causes to be
made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of births or deaths, any false statement in
connection with any notice of a birth or death under this Act, he shall be punished with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.