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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.

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