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Section 6: Establishment of general registry offices and appointment of Registrars General.

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

(1) Each State Government--

(a) shall establish a general registry office for keeping such certified copies of registers of births and deaths registered under this Act, or marriages registered under Act 3 of 1872 ( to provide a form of marriage in certain cases) or the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 ( 15 of 1872), or, beyond the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 (15 of 1865), as may be sent to it under this Act, or under any of the three last-mentioned Acts, as amended by this Act; and

(b) may appoint to the charge of that office an officer, to be called the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, for the territories under its administration:

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Where this provision sits

ActThe Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
Section6
Marginal noteEstablishment of general registry offices and appointment of Registrars General.
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.

  • other. . See now the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954).
  • other. . See now the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936).
  • repealed. . Sub-section (2) rep. by the A.O. 1937.

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