Registration of Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1863

Penalty for neglect of registrar to register marriage, &c.

24. Every registrar who shall refuse or without reasonable cause omit to fill up the certificate of marriage or register any marriage of which he shall have received a certificate, and every person having the custody of any register book or any part thereof who shall carelessly lose or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to be injured whilst in his keeping, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence.