Registration of Marriages Act · s 8

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s 8Parties and witnesses bound to speak truth

(1)

Every declaration made under the provisions of section 4 or 5 shall be sworn or affirmed in such manner as the Registrar shall think proper by all persons who subscribed the same, and every person who gives evidence before the Registrar shall also be bound to answer truthfully all questions put to him by the Registrar under the provisions of section 4 or 5.

(2)

Any person who wilfully makes a false statement in any such declaration or who gives any evidence in any enquiry under this Act which he knows to be untrue, or who does any other act, which if done in a judicial proceeding would be punishable under Chapter XI of the Penal Code

(Chapter 22), shall be punishable on conviction as provided in that chapter in

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the same way as if the act had been done in or in relation to a judicial proceeding.