Section 12
Power for State Government to appoint Registrars for its territories.
The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
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.
The State Government
may appoint, either by name or by virtue of their office, so many persons as it thinks necessary to be
Registrars of Births and Deaths for such local areas within the territories under its administration as it
may define and, if it sees fit, for any class of persons within any part of those territories.