s 50 Offences relating to certificates or extracts
50. A person who — ( a ) forges a document, purporting to be a birth certificate, death certificate or stillbirth certificate, or an extract from any record in a register; ( b ) alters, or otherwise tampers with, a birth certificate, death certificate or stillbirth certificate, or an extract from any record in a register; or ( c ) knowingly obtains, possesses or uses a forged, altered or tampered certificate or extract mentioned in paragraph ( a ) or ( b ), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
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