Section 28: Correction of entry in register of births or deaths.
The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886Central Act · Act 6 of 1886
(1) If it is proved to the satisfaction of a Registrar of Births and Deaths that any entry of a birth or death in any register kept by him under this Act is erroneous in form or substance, he may, subject to such rules as may be made by the [State Government] with respect to the conditions and circumstances on and in which errors may be corrected, correct the error by entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction.
(2) If a certified copy of the entry has already been sent to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Registrar of Births and Deaths shall make and send a separate certified copy of the original erroneous entry and of the marginal correction therein made.
Correction of entry in register of births or deaths.
Jurisdiction
Central
Status
In 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.
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 Government, see section 6 of Act 9 of 1911.
substituted, Act 9 of 1911. . Subs. by Act 9 of 1911, s. 3 for "G.G. in C.".
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