Any person who—
| (a) |
procures for himself or herself or any other person registration under this Act, or any certificate, permit or receipt referred to in this Act, by means of a false representation, whether verbally or in writing; |
| (b) |
makes any unauthorised entry or alteration in or removal from a register or certified copy thereof or extract therefrom or on any certificate, permit or receipt issued under this Act; |
| (c) |
wilfully destroys or damages or renders illegible any entry in the register or, without the permission of the holder thereof, any certificate, permit or receipt issued under this Act; |
| (d) |
forges or, knowing it to be forged, utters any document purporting to be a certificate, permit or receipt issued under this Act; |
| (e) |
impersonates any person registered in terms of this Act; or |
| (f) |
makes a false declaration on any identification envelope issued in connection with an election contemplated in section 5(1)(c), (d) or (e), |
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R40 000.
Statistics Act, 1999
