Act Info:
Preamble1 - REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS ACT, 1969
Chapter I Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions and interpretation
Chapter II Section3 - Registrar-General, India
Section4 - Chief Registrar
Section5 - Registration divisions
Section6 - District Registrar
Section7 - Registrars
Chapter III Section8 - Persons required to register births and deaths
Section9 - Special provision regarding births and deaths in a plantation
Section10 - Duty of certain persons to notify births and deaths and to certify cause of death
Section11 - Informant to sign the registrar
Section12 - Extracts of registration entries to be given to informant
Section13 - Delayed registration of births and deaths
Section14 - Registration of name of child
Section15 - Correction or cancellation of entry in the register of births and deaths
Chapter IV Section16 - Registrars to keep registers in the prescribed form
Section17 - Search of births and deaths register
Section18 - Inspection of registration offices
Section19 - Registrars to send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation
Chapter V Section20 - Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India
Section21 - Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding birth or death
Section22 - Power to give directions
Section23 - Penalties
Section24 - Power to compound offences
Section25 - Sanction for prosecution
Section26 - Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be deemed public servants
Section27 - Delegation of powers
Section28 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section29 - Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 1886
Section30 - Power to make rules
Section31 - Repeal and saving
Section32 - Power to remove difficulty