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13. Amendment of section 15 of the principal enactment

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Section 15 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (c) of that section, of the following new paragraphs:-

“(d) being aware that a person who has been registered as missing in pursuance of an application made under this Act, is alive, fails to furnish such information to the Register-General; or

(e)

dishonestly or fraudulently uses a Certificate of Absence issued under this Act knowing or having reason to believe that the person referred to in such Certificate is alive,”;

(2)

for the words “to a term of imprisonment of not exceeding five years.” of the words “to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand rupees or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years and six months.”.

Read on from s 14