Act Info:
Preamble1 - BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT, 1886
Chapter I Section1 - Short title and commencement
Section2 - Extent
Section3 - Definitions
Section4 - Saving of local laws
Section5 - Power exercisable from time to time
Chapter II Section6 - Establishment of general registry offices and appointment of Registrars General
Section7 - Indexes to be kept at general registry office
Section8 - Indexes to be open to inspection
Section9 - Copies of entries to be admissible in evidence
Section10 - Superintendence of Registrars by Registrar General
Chapter III Section11 - Persons whose births and deaths are registrable
Section12 - Power for State Government to appoint Registrars for its territories
Section13 - Power for Central Government to appoint Registrars for Indian States
Section14 - Registrar to be deemed a public servant
Section15 - Power to remove Registrars
Section16 - Office and attendance of Registrar
Section17 - Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office
Section18 - Register books to be supplied and preservation of records to be provided for
Section19 - Duty of Registrar to register births and deaths of which notice is given
Section20 - Persons authorized to give notice of birth
Section21 - Persons authorized to give notice of death
Section22 - Entry of birth or death to be signed by person giving notice
Section23 - Grant of certificate of Registration of Birth or Death
Section24 - Duty of Registrars as to sending certified copies of entries in register books to Registrar General
Section25 - Searches and copies of entries in register books
Section26 - Exceptional provision for registration of certain births and deaths
Section27 - Penalty for wilfully giving false information
Section28 - Correction of entry in register of births or deaths
Chapter IV Section29 - Repealed
Section30 - Repealed
Section31 - Repealed
Chapter V Section32 - Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General
Section33 - Appointment of Commissioners to examine registers
Section34 - Duties of Commissioners
Section35 - Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries
Section35A - Constitution of additional Commissions for purposes of this Chapter
Chapter VI Section36 - Rules
Section37 - Procedure for making and publication of rules