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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Complete Act

Title: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....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giving false information Section28 - Correction of entry in register of births or deaths Chapter IV Section29 - Repealed Section30 - Repealed Section31 - Repealed Chapter V Section32 - Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General Section33 - Appointment of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

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Chapter III

Title: Registration of Births and Deaths

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....the members of every race, sect or tribe to which the Indian Succession Act, 1865 (10 of 1865)2 applies, and in respect of which an order under section 332 of that Act is not for the time being in force, and all persons professing the Christian religion; 3[***] (2) But the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, may 4[***] extend the operation of this Chapter to any other class of persons either generally or in any local area. __________________________________ 1. Substitution by the A.O. (No. 2) 1956, for "a Part A State or a Part C State". 2. See now the Indian Succesion Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), section 3. 3. Clause (b) rep. by the A.O. 1950. 4. The words "with the previous approval of the G.G. in C" were omitted by the Act 38 of 1920, sec. 2 and Sch. I. Section 12 to 18 - B.--Registration Establishment Section 12 - Power for State Government to appoint Registrars for its territories The State Government may appoint, either by name or by virtue of their office, so many persons as it thinks necessary to be Registrars of Births and Deaths for such local areas within the territories under its.....

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Chapter II

Title: General Registry Offices of Births, Deaths and Marriages

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. Section 8 - Indexes to be open to inspection 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. Section 9 - Copies of entries to be admissible in evidence 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. Section 10 - Superintendence of Registrars by Registrar General Each Registrar General.....

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Preamble 1

Title: Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....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 registers of those births, deaths and marriages; And whereas it is also expedient to provide for the authentication and custody of certain existing registers made otherwise than in the performance of a duty specially enjoined by the law of the country in which the registers were kept, and to declare that copies of the entries in those registers shall be admissible in evidence; It is hereby enacted as follows:-- ______________________ 1. See now the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954). 2. See now the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936).

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 22

Title: Entry of Birth or Death to Be Signed by Person Giving Notice

State: Central

Year: 1886

(1) When an entry of a birth or death has been made by the Registrar of Births and Deaths under section 19, the person giving notice of the birth or death must sign the entry in the register in the presence of the Registrar: 1Provided that it shall not be necessary for the person giving notice to attend before the Registrar or to sign the entry in the register if he has given such notice in writing and has furnished to the satisfaction of the Registrar such evidence of his identity as may be required by any rules made by the State Government in this behalf.] (2) Until the entry has been so signed, [or the conditions specified in t.he proviso to sub-section (1) have been complied with) the birth or death shall not be deemed to be registered under this Act. (3) When the birth of an illegitimate child is registered, and the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child jointly request that person may be registered as the father, the mother and that person must both singthe entry in the register in the presence of the Registrar. ____________________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 9 of 1911, sec. 2.

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 19

Title: Duty of Registrar to Register Births and Deaths of Which Notice is Given

State: Central

Year: 1886

Every Registrar of Births and Deaths of notice of a birth or death within the local area or among the class for which he is appointed, shall, if the notice is given within the prescribed time and in the prescribed mode by a person authorized by this Act to give the notice, forthwith make an entry of the birth or death in the proper register book: Provided that-- (a) if he has reason to believe the notice to be in any respect false, he may refuse to register the birth or death until he receives an order from the Judge of the District Court directing him to make the entry and prescribing the manner in which the entry is to be made; and (b) he shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of an illegitimate child, unless at the request of the mother and ofthe person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child.

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 20

Title: Persons Authorized to Give Notice of Birth

State: Central

Year: 1886

Any of the following persons may give notice of a birth, namely:-- (a) the father or mother of the child; (b) any person present at the birth; (c) any person occupying, at the time of the birth, any part of the house wherein the child was born and having knowledge ofthe child having been born in the house; (d) any medical practitioner in attendance after the birlh and having personal knowledge of birth occurred; (e) any person having charge of the child.

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 23

Title: Grant of Certificate of Registration of Birth or Death

State: Central

Year: 1886

The Registrar of Births and Deaths shall, on application made at the time of registering any birth or death by the person giving notice of the birth or death, and on payment by him of the prescribed fee, give to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed form signed by the Registrar, of having registered the birth or death.

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 28

Title: Correction of Entry in Register of Births or Deaths

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction. (2) If a certified copy of the entry has already been sent to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Registrar of Births and Deaths shall make and send a separate certified copy of the original erroneous entry and of the marginal correction therein made. _____________________________________ 1. For rules made under section 26 cojointly with sections 28 and 36, see Gazette of India, 1888, pt. 1, p. 336 and different local Rules and orders. All rules made by the G.G. in C. under this Act, before 1911, shall be deemed to have been made by the State Government, see section 6 of Act 9 of 1911. 2. Substitution by Act 9 of 1911, sec. 3 for "G.G. in C".

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Section 26

Title: Exceptional Provision for Registration of Certain Births and Deaths

State: Central

Year: 1886

Notwithstanding anything in section 19, the1State Government] may make2rules] authorizing Registrars of Births and Deaths, on conditions and in circumstances to be specified in the rules, to register births and deaths occurring outside the local areas or classes for which they are appointed. ________________________ 1. Substitution by Act 9 of 1911, sec. 3 for "G.G. in C". 2. For rules made under section 26 conjointly with sections 28 and 36, see Gazette of India, 1888, Pt. I, p. 336, and different local Rules and Orders. All rules made by the G.G. in C. under this Act, before 1911, shall be deemed to have been made by the State Governments, see section 6 of Act 9 of 1911.

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