Section 48: Penalties for failure to give information

(1) If, any person commits any of the following offences, that is-
(a) being required by or under this Act or any other enactment to give information concerning any birth or death of any living newborn child or any dead body he wilfully refuses to answer any question put to him by the registrar relating to the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth or death or save as provided in this Act, fails to comply with any requirement of the registrar made hereunder; or
(b) he refuses or fails without reasonable cause to give, deliver or send any certificate which he is required by this Act to give, deliver or send; or
(c) being a parent and save as provided in this Act, he fails to give information concerning the birth of his child as required by this Act; or
(d) being a person upon whom a duty to give information concerning a death is imposed by any enactment he fails to give that information,
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of not more than N50 or imprisonment for a term of one month or to both such fine and imprisonment in respect of each offence.
(2) If any person wilfully obstructs the registrar or any other officer duly authorised in the lawful exercise of the powers vested in him under this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N50 or imprisonment for a term of one month.