Amount (In Rs.)
(a) Search for a single entry in the first 2/— year for which the search is made
(b) For every additional year for which the 2/- search is continued
(c) For granting extract relating to each 5/- birth or death ((1) For granting Non-Availability 2/- _ certificates of birth or deaths
2. Any such extract in regard to a birth or death shall be issued by the Registrar or the officer authorized by the State Government, in this behalf as the case may be, in Form No.6 or in Form No.7 and shall be certified in the manner provided for in section 76 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Central Act 1 of 1872).
3. If any particular event of birth or death is not found registered, the registrar shall issue a non-availability certificate in this behalf in Form No.11.
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Section 19 (1) and 30 Section 19 (2) and 30 Section 23, 24 and 30 Section 30 (2) (k)
4. Any such extract or non-availability certificate of birth or death, may be furnished to the person asking for it or sent to him by post on payment of the postal charges specified therefore.
14. Interval and forms of periodical returns.---l. Every Registrar shall after completing the process of registration, send all the Statistical parts of the reporting forms relating to each . month alongwith the Summary Monthly Report in Form No. 12 for births, Form No.13 for deathsand Form No. 14 for still births to the District Registrar on or before the 5'h day of the following month.
2. The District Registrar shall forward all such statistical parts of the reporting forms received by him to the Chief Registrar not later than the 10th day of the month.
15. Statistical report.--- The statistical report under subsection (2) of section 19 shall contain the tables in the form given in appendix, appended to these rules and shall be compiled for each year before the 31St day of July of the following year, and shall be published as soon as possible thereafter, but in any case not later than five months from that date.
16. Compounding of offences.---1. Any offence punishable under section 23 may either before or after the institution of criminal proceedings under this Act, be compounded by an officer authorized by the Chief Registrar by a general or special order in this behalf, if the officer so authorized is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence or oversight or for the first time.
2. Any offence committed under sub-sections (l), (2) and (3) of section 23 may be compounded on payment of a sum, not exceeding rupees fifty and the offences committed under subsection (4) of section 23 may be compounded for a sum, not exceeding rupees ten, as the aforesaid officer may think fit.
17. Registers and other records.--- 1. The birth register in Form No. 8, Death Register in Form No.9, Still Birth Register in Form No.10 and the information in the legal portion of Form Nos.1,2 and 3, shall be records of permanent importance and shall not be destroyed.
2. The Court orders and orders of the specified authorities granting permission for delayed .registration received under section 13 by the Registrar, shall form an integral part of the birth register, death register and still birth register and shall not be destroyed.
3. The certificate as to the cause of death furnished under sub-section (3) of the section 10, shall be retrained for a period of atleast five years by the Chief Registrar or the officer specified by him in this behalf.
4. Every birth register, death register and still birth register shall be retaine the Registrar in his office for a 55 v —7 i Section 30 period of twelve months i.e. a calendar year and after the end of the calendar year to which it relates, such register and forms shall thereafter be transferred for safe castody to the District Registrar and in respect of municipal areas or cantonment area to such officer, 'as may be specified by the State Government in this behalf.
18. Fees payable. --- Fees payable under the Act, may be paid in cash or by money order or postal order and. shall be deposited in the State Treasury under the appropriate head.
19. Repeal and saving .--— The Punjab Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1972, are hereby repealed:
Provided that any order made or action taken under the rules so repealed, shall be deemed to have been made or taken under the corresponding provisions of these rules 56