Section 63: Specific offences by officers

63. Specific offences by officers (1) Any officer who— (a) makes any entry on a loose sheet; (b) receives, draws up or registers any entry or certificate otherwise than in strict conformity with this Act; [Issue 8] C24 – 28 Revised Laws of Mauritius (c) loses, damages or causes or permits to be lost or damaged any register or part of a register or any document in his custody connected with civil status; (d) celebrates a marriage when the publication prescribed has not been made; (e) allows or permits any person, without any lawful authority, to have access to the computer system; (f) reveals or discloses any information which enables any person to have access to, or to obtain any information in relation to, the computer system; (g) alters, damages or causes the loss of any information of the computer system; (h) fails to comply with any instruction issued by the Registrar of Civil Status regarding the operation of such computer system; or (i) tampers in any manner with the computer system, shall commit an offence. (2) Sections 106 and 107 of the Criminal Code shall be applicable to any officer who— (a) commits a forgery in any entry in a register or in any copy of the entry in one or more of the modes referred to in section 106 of the Criminal Code; or (b) in making any entry in any register or in any copy of the entry, fraudulently alters the substance or particulars thereof in one or more of the modes referred to in section 107 of the Criminal Code. [S. 63 amended by Act 8 of 1997.]