Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
Bare Act · 1969
An Act to provide for the regulation of registration of births and deaths and for matters connected therewith.
In the syllabus of: Gujarat Civil Judge
- Act number
- 18 of 1969
- Enacted
- 31 May 1969
- Contents
- 33 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Registration - Establishment
- Section 3 – Registrar General of India
- Section 4 – Chief Registrar
- Section 5 – Registration divisions
- Section 6 – District Registrar (preview)
- Section 7 – Registrars (preview)
Chapter III — Registration Of Births And Deaths
- Section 8 – Persons required to register births and deaths (preview)
- Section 9 – Special provisions regarding births and deaths in a plantation (preview)
- Section 11 – Informant to sign the register (preview)
- Section 12 – Certificate of registration of births or deaths (preview)
- Section 13 – Delayed registration of births and deaths (preview)
- Section 14 – Registration of name of child (preview)
- Section 15 – Correction or cancellation of entry in the register of births and deaths (preview)
Sections
- Section 10 – Duty of certain persons to notify births and deaths and to certify cause of death (preview)
Chapter IV — Maintenance Of Records And Statistics
- Section 16 – Registrars to keep registers in the prescribed form (preview)
- Section 17 – Search of births and deaths register (preview)
- Section 18 – Inspection of registration offices (preview)
- Section 19 – Registrars to send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation (preview)
Chapter V — Miscellaneous
- Section 20 – Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India (preview)
- Section 21 – Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding birth or death (preview)
- Section 22 – Powers to give directions (preview)
- Section 23 – Penalties (preview)
- Section 24 – Power to compound offences (preview)
- Section 25 – Sanction for prosecution (preview)
- Section 25A – Appeal (preview)
- Section 26 – Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be deemed public servants (preview)
- Section 27 – Delegation of powers (preview)
- Section 28 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 29 – Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 1886 (preview)
- Section 30 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 31 – Repeal and saving (preview)
- Section 32 – Power to remove difficulty (preview)