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Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957 s 34

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957 s 34

s 34 Offences relating to registers

Any person who— (a) being a Registrar, refuses or without reasonable cause omits to register any birth or death or presumed death or particulars concerning which information has been tendered to him by a qualified person under section 7 or 19 or a person under section 24A and which he is required by or under this Act to register; or (b) being a person having the custody of any register carelessly loses or injures the register or allows the register to be injured, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

Malay text (authoritative)

Kesalahan berhubungan dengan daftar

Mana-mana orang yang– (a) sebagai Pendaftar, enggan atau tanpa sebab yang munasabah gagal mendaftarkan mana-mana kelahiran atau kematian atau butir-butir mengenai maklumat yang mana telah diberikan kepadanya oleh pemberitahu yang layak dan yang mana dia dikehendaki oleh atau di bawah Akta ini untuk mendaftarkannya; atau (b) sebagai seorang yang menjaga mana-mana daftar dengan cuai menghilangkan atau merosakkan daftar itu atau membenarkan daftar itu dirosakkan, boleh didenda sebanyak lima ratus ringgit.

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Text as at 1 March 2018 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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