Chapter:	200	Title:	CRIMES ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	34	Heading:	False statements, etc., with reference to marriage	Version Date:	30/06/1997

Any person who-

(a) for the purpose of procuring a marriage, or a certificate or licence for marriage, knowingly and wilfully makes a false oath or makes or signs a false declaration, notice or certificate required under any enactment for the time being in force relating to marriage; or
(b) knowingly and wilfully makes, or knowingly and wilfully causes to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of marriage, a false statement as to any particular required by law to be known and registered relating to any marriage; or
(c) forbids the issue of any certificate or licence for marriage by falsely representing himself to be a person whose consent to the marriage is required by law knowing such representation to be false; or
(d) knowingly and wilfully-
(i) makes a false statement in an application; or
(ii) furnishes false information,
for the purpose of or in connection with the registration of a customary marriage or a validated marriage under section 9 of the Marriage Reform Ordinance (Cap 178), (Added 87 of 1970 s. 2)