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Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 1998 (Act No. 120 of 1998)

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Recognition of Customary Marriages Act Regulations

9. Offences and penalties

 

Any person who—

(a) without reasonable cause fails to furnish any notice, information, statement or certificate required by these regulations;
(b) having the custody of any document or record mentioned in these regulations or a reproduction thereof, loses, damages or destroys it or allows it to be damaged or destroyed; or
(c) charges or receives fees for any act performed or to be performed in accordance with the provisions of these regulations which are higher than the fees payable in terms of these regulations for such act, or where no fees are payable in terms of these regulations for such act, shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction be liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.