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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

Sections	Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
	Preamble

	CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY
1.	Short title and commencement
2.	Extent
3.	Definitions
4.	Saving of local laws
5.	Power exercisable from time to time

	CHAPTER II : GENERAL REGISTRY OFFICES OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
6.	Establishment of general registry offices and appointment of registrars General
7.	Indexes to be kept at general registry office
8.	Indexes to be open to inspection
9.	Copies of entries to be admissible in evidence
10.	Superintendence of Registrars by Registrar General

	CHAPTER III : REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS
	A.- Application of this Chapter
11.	Persons whose births and deaths are registrable
	B.-Registration establishment
12.	Power for State Government to appoint Registrars for its territories
13.	Repealed by the A. O. 1950
14.	Registrar to be deemed a public servant
15.	Repealed by the A. O. 1937
16.	Office and attendance of Registrar
17.	Absence of registrar or vacancy in his office
18.	Register books to be supplied and preservation of records to be provided for
	C.- Mode of registration
19.	Duty of Registrar to register births and deaths of which notice is given
20.	Persons authorised to give notice of birth
21.	persons authorised to give notice of death
22.	Entry of birth or death to be signed by person giving notice
23.	Grant of certificate of registration of birth or death
24.	Duty of Registrars as to sending certified copies of entries in register books to Registrar General
25.	Search and copies of entries in register books
26.	Exceptional provision for registration of certain births and deaths
	E.- Correction of errors
27.	Penalty for wilfully giving false information
28.	Correction of entry in register of births or deaths

	CHAPTER IV : AMENDMENT OF MARRIAGE ACTS
	Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938)

	CHAPTER V : SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO CERTAIN EXISTING REGISTERS
29.	Repealed
30.	Repealed
31.	Repealed
32.	Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General
33.	Appointment of Commissioners to examine registers
34.	Duties of Commissioners
35.	Searches of lists prepared by Commissioners and grant of certified copies of entries
35A.	Constitution of additional commissions for purposes of this Chapter

	CHAPTER VI : RULES
36.	Rules
37.	Repealed by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act, 1911

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886