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Section 26: Exceptional provision for registration of certain births and deaths.

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886Central Act · Act 6 of 1886

Notwithstanding anything in section 19, the [State Government] may make rules authorising Registrars of Births and Deaths, on conditions and in circumstances to be specified in the rules, to register births and deaths occurring outside the local areas or classes for which they are appointed.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
Section26
Marginal noteExceptional provision for registration of certain births and deaths.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 9 of 1911. . Subs. by Act 9 of 1911, s. 3 for "G.G. in C.".
  • other, Act 9 of 1911. . For rules made under section 26 conjointly with sections 28 and 36, see Gazette of India, 1888, Part. I, p. 336, and different local Rules and Orders. All rules made by the G.G. in C. under this Act, before 1911, shall be deemed to have been made by the State Governments, see section 6 of Act 9 of 1911.

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