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FORGERY ACT 1830

FORGERY ACT 1830 - LONG TITLE

An Act for amending the Laws relative to Forgery.{1}
[23rd July 1830]
The whole Act, except s.21, rep. by 1861 c.95 s.1 sch.

FORGERY ACT 1830 - SECT 21
Rector, &c. not liable to any penalty for correcting, in the mode
prescribed, accidental errors in the register.

21. Provided always, that no rector, vicar, curate, or officiating
minister of any parish, district parish, or chapelry, who shall
discover any error in the form or substance of the entry in the
register of any baptism, marriage, or burial respectively by him
solemnized, shall be liable to any of the penalties herein mentioned
if he shall, within one calendar month after the discovery of such
error, in the presence of the parent or parents of the child
baptized, or of the parties married, or in the presence of two
persons who shall have attended at any burial, or, in the case of
the death or absence of the respective parties aforesaid, then in
the presence of the churchwardens or chapelwardens, correct the entry
which shall have been found erroneous, according to the truth of
the case, by entry in the margin of the register wherein such
erroneous entry shall have been made, without any alteration or
obliteration of the original entry, and shall sign such entry in
the margin, and add to such signature the day of the month and
year when such correction shall be made; and such correction and
signature shall be attested by the parties in whose presence the
same are directed to be made as aforesaid: Provided also, that in
the copy of the register which shall be transmitted to the
registrar of the diocese, the said rector, vicar, curate, or
officiating minister shall certify the corrections so made by him as
aforesaid.