Lawgist32Permission to persons having custody of certain records to send them within one year to Registrar General
If any person in 1[the territories to which this Act extends] has for the time being the custody of any register or record of birth, baptism, naming, dedication, death or burial of any persons of the classes referred to in section 11, subsection (1), or, of any register or record of marriage of any persons of the classes to which 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) applies, and if such register or record has been made otherwise than in performance of a duly specially enjoined by the law of the country in which the register or record was kept, he may, 2[ at any time before the first day April, 1891,] send the register or record to the office of the Registrar General or Births, Deaths and Marriages for the territories within which he resides, 3 ***.
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1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2), Order 1956, for "a Part A State or a Part C State".
2. Subs. by Act 16 of 1890, s. 1, for "within one year from the date on which this Act comes into force".
3. Certain words including the proviso which was inserted by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and the Schedule, omitted by the A.O. 1950.
- 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
