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Penalty for giving False Information

Penalty For Giving False Information

Under the provisions of Section 53(1) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act, 1965, any person who knowingly gives to a district registrar, or the Registrar General, information which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable

  1. on conviction on indictment, to a FINE or to IMPRISONMENT for a term not exceeding 2 YEARS or to BOTH;
  2. on summary conviction, to a FINE not exceeding the prescribed sum or to IMPRISONMENT for a term not exceeding 3 MONTHS or to BOTH.