Registration of Adoptions Act · s 8

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s 8Parties and witnesses bound to speak truth

(1)

Every person who gives evidence before the Registrar shall be bound to state the truth and to answer truthfully all questions which the

Registrar may put to him.

(2)

Any person who gives any evidence in any inquiry under this Act which he knows to be untrue, or who does any other act, which if done in a judicial proceeding would be an offence punishable under Chapter XI of the

Penal Code (Chapter 22), shall be punishable on conviction as provided in that Chapter in the same way as if the act had been done in or in relation to a judicial proceeding.