Section 46: Offences

If any person commits any of the following offences, that is-(a) being a registrar, he refuses or without reasonable cause omits to register any birth or death, or particulars concerning which information has been tendered to him by a qualified informant and which he is required by or under this Act to register; or
(b) being a person having custody of any register of births or deaths he carelessly loses or damages the register or allows the register to be damaged,
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N1,000 or imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.