(1) The State Government shall appoint a Registrar of Marriages for comprising the area of a tehsil or sub-tehsil or a combination of any two or more for carrying into execution in such areas the provisions of this Act:
Provided that the State Government may appoint, in the case of a Municipality or a Panchayat or group of Panchayats, any officer or employee thereof, to be a Registrar of Marriages under the provisions of this Act.
(2) The Registrar of Marriages may also suo motu, or on notice, without fee or reward, enters and registers any marriage which takes place in his jurisdiction in the marriage register maintained under this Act, after calling the parties concerned and ascertaining the facts which require such marriage to be registered.
(3) Every Registrar of Marriages shall have an office in the local area of his jurisdiction for which he is so appointed.
(4) Every Registrar of Marriages shall attend his office for District Registrar of Marriages.
Registrar of Marriages.
the purpose of registering marriages on such days and at such public hours as the Chief Registrar may direct and shall cause to be placed in a conspicuous place on or near the outer door of his office, a board bearing, in the local language, his name and the designation of the word “Registrar of Marriages” and the public days and hours of his attendance.
12. Every Registrar of Marriages shall maintain a marriage register, for the area or part thereof, in relation to which he exercises jurisdiction in such form, language and manner, as may be prescribed.
13. If the Registrar of Marriages finds that any entry of a marriage in the marriage register kept by him under this Act, is erroneous in form or substance or has been fraudulently or improperly made, he may, subject to such rules, as may be made by the State Government with respect to the conditions on which and the circumstances in which, such entries may be corrected or cancelled, correct the error or cancel the entries by making a suitable entry in the margin, without any alternation of the original entry, and shall sign and attest such entry, made in the margin and indicate the date of correction or cancellation, so made:
Provided that no such correction or alteration shall be made to the detriment of any person without giving him an opportunity of being heard.