Section 1

Short title and commencement.

The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

Act 6 of 1886
Ministry of Home Affairs
Department of Home

About this Act

An Act to provide for the voluntary Registration of certain Births and Deaths, for the establishment of General Registry Offices for keeping Registers of certain Births, Deaths and Marriages, and for certain other purposes.

All sections

    (1) This Act may be called the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886; and
     (2) It shall come into force on such day¹as the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, directs.
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Notes

¹. The 1st October, 1888, see Gazette of India, 1888, Part I, p. 336.
². Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 12 of 1891, s. 2 and the First Schedule.