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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.

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    • 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