SECTION 150 — Keeping of Civil Status Registers

(1) Any civil status registrar who: a) makes any entry elsewhere than in the registers prescribed for that purpose or fails to make such entries ; b) having received a birth or death declaration fails to register it ; c) celebrates a marriage for which he is not territorially competent ; d) makes an entry other than those provided for ; e) knowingly registers a marriage for which banns were not published or to which the impediment raised has not been lifted ; registers a customary marriage which has not been certified by the customary heads or the two spouses shall be punished with imprisonment for from 1 (one) to 3 (three) months and with fine of from CFAF 2 000 (two thousand) to CFAF 40 000 (forty thousand). (2) Whoever, though bound by law to declare a vital event, and for no legitimate reason, fails to do so, or makes a false or inaccurate declaration, shall be punished as provided for in Subsection 1 above.