{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-act-1861/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-act-1861/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/98",
  "legislation_title": "Forgery Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forgery-act-1861",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Making false entries in copies of register sent to registrar.",
  "text": "Whosoever shall knowingly and wilfully insert or cause or permit to be inserted in any copy of any register directed or required by law to be transmitted to any registrar or other officer any false entry of any matter relating to any baptism, marriage, or burial, . . . or shall knowingly and wilfully sign or verify any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which copy shall be false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false, or shall unlawfully destroy, deface, or injure, or shall for any fraudulent purpose take from its place of deposit, or conceal, any such copy of any register, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude for life . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Forgery Act 1913 (c. 27), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19) and Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/98/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:27.542685+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}