Article 434 — Infraction of the Rules Concerning Compulsory

Registration. (1) Whoever intentionally fails within the time-limits fixed by law to make to the competent authorities a declaration required to ensure the due entry in the official registers of marriages or deaths, of property or commercial or other transactions, of facts or certified statements relating to the status of individuals to real estate transactions, to the establishment or operation of companies or to any other like obligation, is punishable with simple imprisonment not exceeding three months or fine not exceeding one thousand Birr. (2) Where the failure to make such declaration is habitual or repeated, or is in defiance of an order or summons issued by the competent authority, the punishment shall be simple imprisonment not exceeding six months, or fine not exceeding two thousand Birr. (3) Nothing in this Article shall affect the special provision regarding the failure to register the birth or an infant (Art. 656).