Title : Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
State : Central
Year : 1886
THE BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT, 1886 [Act, No. 6 of 1886] [8th March, 1886] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the voluntary Registration of certain Births and Deaths, for the establishment of General Registry Offices for keeping Registers of certain Births, Deaths and Marriages, and for certain other purposes. whereas it is expedient to provide for the voluntary registration of births and deaths among certain classes of persons, for the more effectual registration of those births and deaths and of the marriages registered under Act III of 18721, or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15 of 1872) and of certain marriages registered under Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865)2, and for the establishment of general registry offices for keeping..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Extent
State : Central
Year : 1886
1[ 2.Extent.-- ThisAct extends2 to the whole ofIndia except 3 the territorieswhich immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprisedin Part B States].] ________________________________ 1. Subs. by theA.O. 1950, for the former section. 2. It has beendeclared in force in the Santhal Parganas by sec. 3 of the Santhal ParganasSettlement Regulation, 1872 (III of 1872). It has also been partially extendedto Berar by the Berar Laws Act1941 (4 of 1941). 3. Subs. by theA.O. (No. 2), 1956, for "Part B States". View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definitions
State : Central
Year : 1886
In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, -- "sign" includes mark, when the person making the mark is unable to write his name; "prescribed" means prescribed by a rule made1[ ** * * *] under this Act; and "Registrar of Births and Deaths" means a Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed under this Act. _____________________________ 1. The words "by the G.G. in C." rep. by the A.O. 1937. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Saving of Local Laws
State : Central
Year : 1886
Nothing in this Act, or in any rule made under this Act, shall affect any law heretofore or hereafter passed providing for the registration of births and deaths within particular local areas. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power Exercisable from Time to Time
State : Central
Year : 1886
All powers conferred by this Act may be exercised from time to time as occasion requires. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : General Registry Offices of Births, Deaths and Marriages
State : Central
Year : 1886
(1) Each State Government -- (a) shall establish a general registry office for keeping such certified copies of registers of births and deaths registered under this Act, or marriages registered under Act III of 18721(to provide a form of marriage in certain cases) or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 ( 15 of 1872), or, beyond the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865)2, as may be sent to it under this Act, or under any of the three last-mentioned Acts, as amended by this Act; and (b) may appoint to the charge of that office an officer, to be called the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the territories under its administration: 3[* * *..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Establishment of General Registry Offices and Appointment of Registrars General
State : Central
Year : 1886
(1) Each State Government -- (a) shall establish a general registry office for keeping such certified copies of registers of births and deaths registered under this Act, or marriages registered under Act III of 18721(to provide a form of marriage in certain cases) or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 ( 15 of 1872), or, beyond the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865)2, as may be sent to it under this Act, or under any of the three last-mentioned Acts, as amended by this Act; and (b) may appoint to the charge of that office an officer, to be called the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the territories under its administration: 3[* * *..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Indexes to Be Kept at General Registry Office
State : Central
Year : 1886
Each Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages shall cause indexes of all the certified copies of registers sent to his office under this Act or under Act III of 1872, or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15 of 1872), or the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865), as amended by this Act, to be made and kept in his office in the prescribed form. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Indexes to Be Open to Inspection
State : Central
Year : 1886
Subject to the payment of the prescribed fees the indexes so made shall be at all reasonable time open to inspection by any person applying to inspect them, and copies of entries in the certified copies of the registers to which the indexes relate shall be given to all persons applying for them. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Copies of Entries to Be Admissible in Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1886
A copy of an entry given under the last foregoing section shall be certified by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, or by an officer authorized in this behalf by the State Government and shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving the birth, death or marriage to which the entry relates. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section