Section 38: Persons exempt from appearance at registration-office
The Regiatrstion Act, 1908Union territory Act of Andaman and Nicobar Islands · Act 16 of 1908
(1) (a) A person who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable without risk or serious inconvenience to appear at the registration-office, or
(b) a person in jail under civil or criminal process, or
1. Ins. by Act 13 of 1926, s. 2.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.
3. Subs. by the A.O. 1939, for “Local Official Gazette”.
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(c) person exempt by law from personal appearance in Court, and who would but for the provisions next hereinafter contained be required to appear in person at the registration-office, shall not be required so to appear.
(2) In the case of every such person the registering officer shall either himself go to the house of such person, or to the jail in which he is confined, and examine him or issue a commission for his examination.