The Registration of Births and Deaths Act `1969
An Act to provide for the regulation of registration of births and deaths and for matters connected therewith.
List of Chapters & Sections
All sections
- 1Short title, extent and commencement
- 2Definitions and interpretation
- 3Registrar-General, India
- 4Chief Registrar
- 5Registration divisions
- 6District Registrar
- 7Registrars
- 8Persons required to register births and deaths
- 9Special provisions regarding births and deaths in a plantation
- 10Duty of certain persons to notify births and deaths and to certify cause of death
- 11Informant to sign the register
- 12Extracts of registration entries to be given to informant
- 13Delayed registration of births and deaths
- 14Registration of name of child
- 15Correction or cancellation of entry in the register of births and deaths
- 16Registrars to keep registers in the prescribed form
- 17Search of births and deaths registe
- 18Inspection of registration office
- 19Registrars to send periodical returns to the Chief Registrar for compilation
- 20Special provision as to registration of births and deaths of citizens outside India
- 21Power of Registrar to obtain information regarding birth or deat
- 22Powers to give directions
- 23Penalties
- 24Power to compound offences
- 25Sanction for prosecution
- 26Registrars and Sub-Registrars to be deemed public servant
- 27Delegation of powers
- 28Protection of action taken in good faith
- 29Act not to be in derogation of Act 6 of 188
- 30Power to make rules
- 31Repeal and saving
- 32Power to remove difficulty