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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
50Unauthorised access to, or interference with, register
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50 Unauthorised access to, or interference with, register A person commits an offence if the person— (a) does any of the following: (i) obtains access to the register, records maintained under section 47 or information contained in the register or those records; (ii) makes, alters or deletes an entry in the register or those records; (iii) interferes with the register or those records in any other way; and (b) does so without the registrar-general’s authority.