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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 14.
(2.) Certificates of death to be required— No society [or
branch] shall pay any sum of money upon the death [not
being a death at sea] of a member or other person whose
death is or ought to be entered in any register of deaths,
except upon the production of a certificate of such death,
under the hand of the registrar of deaths, or other person
haying the care of the register of deaths in which such
death is or ought to be entered (a).
(3.) Offences.—It shall be an offence under this Act if any
registered society [or branch]—
(a.) Fails to give any notice, send any return or document,
or do or allow to be done any act or thing
which the society [or branch] is by this Act required
to give, send, do, or allow to be done :
{b.) Wilfully neglects or refuses to do any act or to furnish
any information required for the purposes of this
Act by the chief or any other registrar or other
person authorized under this Act, or does any act
or thing forbidden by this Act:
(c.) Makes a return or wilfully furnishes information in
any respect false or insufficient (!>).
(4.) Offences by societies [or branches] to be also offences by
officers, dec.—Every offence by a society [or branch] under
this Act shall be deemed to have been also committed by
every officer of the same bound by the rules thereof to
fulfil any duty whereof such offence is a breach, or if there
bo no such officer, then by every member of the committee
of management of the same, unless such member be proved
to have been ignorant of or to have attempted to prevent
the commission of such offence; and every default under
this Act constituting an offence, if continued, constitutes
a new offence in every week during which the same
continues (b).
1 (a) This provision is new.
" (S) These provisions are wholly recast, and take the place of
the very insufficient provision for enforcing the law hitherto
made by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 58, s. 7.
