Section 65, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) A Registration Officer appointed under section 18 oran officer of the court who, otherwise than in accordance with this Act- (a) knowingly deletes, alters, permits or procures the deletion or alteration of information contained in a register or an index to a register; or (b) keeps, permits or procures the keeping of any information (other than information contained in or relating to a register or an index to a register) on a computer on which a register or an index to a register is kept, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not less than Ten Million Leones (10,000,000.00) and not exceeding Fifty Million Leones (50,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months and not more than three years or to both such fine and imprisonment (2) In relation to a computer on which a register or an index to a register is kept, a person (including a person entitled to access information kept on the computer but excluding the Director- General or an authorised officer) who, without the consent of the Director-General or an authorised officer- (a) deletes, alters, permits or procures the deletion or alteration of information kept on the computer; or (b) keeps, permits or procures the keeping of information (other than information contained in or relating to a register or an index to a register) on the computer whether the keeping is done directly or by adjusting or damaging the computer or its programming or another computer or its programming, Offences. 48 49 Searches. commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not less than Ten Million Leones (10,000,000.00) and not exceeding Fifty Million Leones (50,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months and not more than three years or to both such fine and imprisonment (3) Any person who gives to a Registration Officer particulars or information which he knows to be false or misleading commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment (4) A Registration Officer who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to register a birth, marriage, death, adoption, divorce or nullity to include in the relevant entry in the appropriate register any of the particulars required by this Act to be entered in the register in relation to the occurrence and given to him by a person required so to do by this Act, commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment (5) Any person who is required by this Act to give to a Registration Officer the required particulars relating to a birth, a new born child found abandoned, or a death and who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to answer a question put to him by a Registration Officer in relation to those particulars commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. (6) Any person who is required by this Act to sign a register in the presence of a Registration Officer and who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to do so commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. (7) Any person who is required by this Act to give a certificate to a Registration Officer and who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to do so commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. (8) Any person who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to comply with a direction given to him under section 44 or a requirement in a notice given to or served on him under this Act commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. (9) A Registration Officer who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to give a marriage registration form to one of the parties to an intended marriage in respect of which he has received a notification commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment 50 51 (10) Any person who, without reasonable cause, contravenes sub section (1) of section 45, sub section (1) of section 52 and or sub section (1) of section 53 commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not less than Five Million Leones (5,000,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not less than twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment