{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-45.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1041",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Forgery, etc., of documents under this Order",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) . . . falsifies any certificate, declaration or order under this Order;\n(b) knowing any such certificate, declaration or order to be false. . . , uses it as true, or gives or sends it as true to any person; or\n(c) passes as genuine any reproduction of a certified copy under this Order, knowing that the reproduction is not a certified copy;\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale .\nPara. (2) rep. by 1981 c. 45",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 c. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1041/article/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:49.962650+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}