(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.
(2) An error of fact or substance in any such register if occurred due to typing or clerical mistake, may be corrected by any person authorized as aforesaid by entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, upon request by the concerned without insisting on any declaration by the Municipal Commissioner or the person requiring such error to be corrected.
(3) Correction or change of details, if any, from original application shall require 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.
(4) Except as provided in sub-section (2), no alteration shall be made in any such register.
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168. 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.
169. 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.
Information of births.
Information regarding deaths.
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Planned Development.
Act No.VII of 1920.
Act No.1 of 1975.
Development of Land and Making of Layout.
170. 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.
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