ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1966
SHAR'IYAH COURTS AND MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ENACTMENT, 1966

PART V - OFFENCES



Section 98. Failure to report.

(1) Whoever, being under a duty to report, to a Registrar any marriage or divorce, wilfully neglects or fails to do so shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding $25.

(2) Whoever, being under a duty to report or having reported, to a Registrar any marriage or divorce, and having been required by such Registrar to furnish any information or to execute or sign any document lawfully necessary for the purpose of effecting registration thereof wilfully neglects or fails to comply with such requirement shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding $25.

(3) whoever makes to any Registrar orally or in writing any wilfully false statement or declaration relating to any matter requited under the provisions of this Enactment to be recorded or registered by such Registrar shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or with fine not exceeding $100.




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