Each Registrar shall keep himself informed of every birth or death occurring within the area of his jurisdiction and shall ascertain such particulars in respect of every birth or death as may be prescribed in this behalf.
470. Registers to be maintained.
(1) Such particulars regarding births and deaths as the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, from time to time, specify, shall be entered in separate registers of births and of deaths, and such registers shall be maintained by each Registrar.
(2) The State Government may prescribe the forms of the registers of births and deaths required to be maintained under sub-section (1) and the manner in which such registers shall be maintained.
(3) On an application from a person interested, the Chief Registrar or a Registrar, as the case may be, shall issue an extract from any entry in a register on payment of such fees as may be determined by the municipality by regulations.
471. Registration of births and deaths. Subject to the provisions of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, the municipality shall cause registration of births and deaths taking place within the municipal area and extracts of information therefrom shall be supplied, on application, in such form of a certificate and on payment of such fees, as may be determined by regulations.
472. Registration of name of child or of alteration of name-
(1) When the birth of any child has been registered without a name, and when a name is given to it, or, the name, if any, by which it was registered, is to be altered, the parent or the guardian of such child or other person giving the name or proposing to alter the name may, within sixty months next after the registration of the birth, deliver to the Registrar of the area in which the birth was registered, such certificate as hereinafter provided, and the Registrar, upon receipt of the certificate, shall, without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith enter in the register the name mentioned in the certificate as having been given to the child or altered.
(2) The certificate shall be in such form as the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer may, from time to time, specify, and shall be signed by the >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 654 parent, or the guardian of the child or other person giving or altering the name of the child.
473. Correction of errors in registers of births or deaths-
(1) Any clerical error, which may, at any time, be discovered in a register of births or register of deaths, may be corrected by any person authorized in this behalf by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer.
(2) An error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by any person authorized as aforesaid by entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, upon production to the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer by the person requiring such error to be corrected, of a declaration (setting forth the nature of the error and the fact of the case) on oath made before a Magistrate, by the person required by this Act to give information concerning the birth or death with reference to which the error has been made or, in default of such person, by a person having knowledge of the case.
(3) Except as provided in sub-section (2), no alteration shall be made in any such register.
474. Information of births. It shall be the duty of the father or the mother of every child born in the municipal area and, in default of the father or the mother, of any relative, of the child living in the same premises and, in default of such relative, of the person having charge of the child, to give, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, to the Registrar of the area concerned within eight days after such birth, information containing such particulars as may be prescribed in this behalf:
Provided that -
(a) in the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as father of such child, be required to give information under this Act concerning the birth of such child, and the Registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any person as father of such child, except at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and such person shall, in such case, sign the register together with the mother,
(b) a person required to give information only in default of some other person shall not be bound to give such information if he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that such information had been given, and >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] o`gLifrokj 9 Qjojh] 2012 655
(c) when a child is born in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home, none but the officer-in-charge thereof shall be bound to forward forthwith to the Registrar a report of such birth in such time, and in such form, as the Chief Registrar may, from time to time, specify.
475. Information regarding finding of newborn child- In case any newborn child is found exposed, it shall be the duty of any person finding such child or of any person in whose charge such child may be placed, to give, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to the Chief Registrar or the Registrar, within eight days after the finding of such child, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of such child as such person possesses.
476. Information regarding deaths-It shall be the duty of the nearest relative present at the time of the death or in attendance during the last illness of any person dying in the municipal area and, in default of such relative, of any person present or in attendance at the time of the death and of the occupier of the premises in which, to his knowledge, the death took place and, in default of the person as aforesaid, of each inmate of such premises and of the caretaker or other person causing the corpse of the deceased person to be disposed of, to give, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to the Registrar of the area within which the death took place information containing such particulars as may be prescribed within twenty-four hours of such death :
Provided that -
(a) if the cause of death is known to be a dangerous disease, the information as aforesaid shall be given within twelve hours of its occurrence, and
(b) if the death of any person occurs in a hospital or a nursing home or a maternity home, it shall be the duty of none but the medical officer or other officer-in-charge thereof to forward forthwith a report of such death in such form as the Chief Registrar may, from time to time, specify.
477. Medical Practitioner to certify cause of death- In the case of a person who has been attended in his last illness by a duly qualified medical practitioner, such practitioner shall, within three days of his becoming cognizant of the death of such person, sign and forward to the Chief Registrar a certificate of the cause of death of such person in such form as shall, from time to time, be specified by the Municipal Commissioner or the Executive Officer in this behalf, and the cause of death as stated in such certificate shall be entered in the register together with the name of the certifying medical practitioner.
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478. Duties of police in regard to unclaimed corpses- It shall be the duty of the police to convey every unclaimed corpse to a registered burial or burning ground or other place for disposal of the dead or to a duly appointed mortuary and, thereafter, to inform the Registrar within whose jurisdiction such corpse was found.
479. Sextons etc., not to bury etc., corpse. A sexton or a keeper of a registered burial or burning ground or other place for disposal of the dead, whether situated in municipal area or not, shall not bury, burn or otherwise dispose of, or allow to be buried, burnt or otherwise disposed of, any corpse unless such corpse is accompanied by a certificate in such form as may be prescribed, and signed by a Registrar appointed under section 468 or by a registered medical practitioner or any other medical practitioner authorized by the State Government in this behalf.
Chapter 42 Disaster Management
480. Management of natural or technological disasters-
(1) As far as possible, the municipality shall, in collaboration with the concerned authorities of the Central Government or the State Government, including the meteorological office, have prepared environmental base maps and impact area diagrams and shall collect other relevant data and shall take necessary steps for erecting installations and other accessories required to mitigate the effects of natural or technological disasters.
(2) The municipality shall organise emergency operations and promote public awareness in relation to disaster management.
(3) The municipality shall take adequate measures to implement the regulations, if any, made by the planning and urban development authorities to mitigate earthquake hazards in high seismic zones and to promote citizen awareness in this regard.
(4) The Municipal Corporations having a population of ten lakhs and more shall prepare a Fire-hazard Response and Mitigation Plan every year as prescribed by the state government through consultative process and publish the Plan in the State Gazette.
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