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that he has personally attended the infant during its last illness, and specifying
the cause of death, and the coroner is satisfied that there is no ground for
holding an inquest.
(2) If any person required to give a notice under this section fails to give
the notice within the time specified for giving the notice, he shall be guilty of
an offence under this Part of this Act.
7.—A person by whom an infant in respect of which notice is required to be
given under this Part of this Act is kept shall be deemed to have an interest
in the life of the child for the purposes of the Life Assurance Act, 1774, and,
if any such person directly or indirectly insures or attempts to insure the life
of such an infant, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Part of this Act,
and, if a company, within the meaning of the Life Assurance Companies Acts,
1870 to 1872, or any other company, society, or person, knowingly issues, or
procures or attempts to procure to be issued, to or for the benefit of such a
person as aforesaid or to any person on his behalf, a policy on the life of such
an infant, the company, society, or person shall be guilty of an offence under
this Part of this Act.
8.—(1) If any person required to give a notice under this Part of this Act
knowingly or wilfully makes, or causes or procures any other person to make,
any false or misleading statement in any such notice, he shall be guilty of an
offence under this Part of this Act.
(2) Every notice by this Part of this Act required to be given may be sent
by post in a registered letter addressed to the clcrk of the local authority or to
such other person as the local authority may appoint, or in the case of a notice
to a coroner, to the coroner, or may be delivered at the office of the local
authority, or, in the case of a notice to a coroner, at his office or residence.
9.—(1) Every person guilty of an offence under this part of this Act shall
on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six
months or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds, and the Court may order
any infant in respect of which the offence was committed to be removed to a
place of safety.
(2) Any fines under this Part of this Act shall, notwithstanding any provision
in any other Act, be paid to the local authority, and be applied to the purposes
to which the fund or rate out of which the expenses of the local authority are
to be defrayed is applicable.
10.—(1) The local authority for the purposes of this Part of this Act shall—
(r/) as respects the County of London, exclusive of the City, be the County
Council ;
(b) as respects the City of London, be the Common Council ;
(r) elsewhere be the Guardians of the Poor Law Union.
(2) All expenses incurred by or on behalf of the local authority in and about
the execution of this Part of this Act shall be defrayed -
(a) in the case of the County of London, out of the county fund as general
county expenses ;
(b) in the case of the Citv of London, out of the general rate ;
(c) in the case of a Board of Guardians, out of the common fund.
11.—(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act shall not extend to any
relative or legal guardian of an infant who undertakes the nursing and