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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 docu 
ment, or do or allow to be done any act or thing 
which the society [or branch] is by this Act re 
quired 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.